Glossary of Style Elements

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

[L]et us go forth to lead the land we love

Question 2

allusion

Answer 2

Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah

Question 3

anaphora

Answer 3

Not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are

Question 4

antimetabole

Answer 4

[A]sk not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country

Question 5

antithesis

Answer 5

[W]e shall support any friend, oppose any foe

Question 6

archaic diction

Answer 6

beliefs for which our forebears fought

Question 7

asyndeton

Answer 7

[W]e shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty

Question 8

cumulative sentence

Answer 8

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war

Question 9

hortative sentence

Answer 9

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us

Question 10

imperative sentence

Answer 10

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man

Question 11

juxtaposition

Answer 11

[W]e are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century

Question 12

metaphor

Answer 12

And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion

Question 13

oxymoron

Answer 13

But this peaceful revolution

Question 14

parallelism

Answer 14

Let both sides explore . . . Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals . . . Let both sides seek to invoke . . . Let both sides unite to heed

Question 15

periodic sentence

Answer 15

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support

Question 16

personification

Answer 16

With history the final judge of our deeds

Question 17

rhetorical question

Answer 17

Will you join in that historic effort?

Question 18

synedoche

Answer 18

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.

Question 19

zeugma

Answer 19

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden