Kennedy's Inaugural Address

Read the speech through once to determine author purpose.

Read a second time, focusing on:

LOGICAL ARGUMENTS/POINTS BEING MADE—CREATE A FLOWCHART OF IDEAS

Read a third time, focusing on one of these aspects:

AUDIENCE CONNECTIONS—IDENTIFY WAYS HE LOOKS TO CONNECT WITH HIS WIDE AUDIENCE

DICTION—IDENTIFY SIGNIFICANT WORD CHOICE AND WHY IT IS IMPACTFUL

SYMBOLISM AND IMAGERY—IDENTIFY HOW THIS IS USED, WHAT IS BEING EXPRESSED SYMBOLICALLY AND WHY IT IS BEING EXPRESSED FIGURATIVELY AND NOT LITERALLY

CONTEXT—LOOK FOR WAYS THAT CONTEXT AND WORLD EVENTS OF THE TIMES IMPACTED HIS IDEAS THROUGHOUT THE SPEECH

Finally, use THIS PRESENTATION to effectively analyze the rhetorical techniques used by Kennedy to achieve his purpose in this speech.