Kennedy’s Inaugural speech was given on January 20th, 1961. He spoke to not only the citizens of the United States, but to the entire world. It was clear that his main goal was to unify the entire human race and to make the world a better place for everyone.

During Kennedy’s speech he uses pathos, logos, and ethos. He also uses a lot of repetition such as “we” and “us” to make sure the people remember his speech. He shows a lot of emotion through his patriotism and hope for all citizens of the United States.

Kennedy brings about a new way of thinking in his inaugural speech. He brings in a sense of selflessness and relentlessness for the country. He uses literary devices such as, antithesis, repetition, and rhetorical questions to bring about that sense in the audience.

Anaphora is a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences. For example, Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech contains anaphora: “So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Examples of Anaphora in Literature, Speech and Music

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “I Have a Dream” Speech.
• Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities.
• Winston Churchill: “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” Speech.
• The Police: Every Breath You Take.

Anastrophe (from the Greek: ἀναστροφή, anastrophē, “a turning back or about”) is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed. For example, subject–verb–object (“I like potatoes”) might be changed to object–subject–verb (“potatoes I like”).

Assonance most often refers to the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that do not end the same. For example, “he fell asleep under the cherry tree” is a phrase that features assonance with the repetition of the long “e” vowel, despite the fact that the words containing this vowel do not end in perfect rhymes.

What is chiasmus? Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order. The sentence “She has all my love; my heart belongs to her,” is an example of chiasmus.

The Importance of Chiasmus. The chiasmus creates a highly symmetrical structure, and gives the impression of completeness. In addition, chiasmus often uses parallelism, one of the most important structures in all of rhetoric. Parallelism is extremely effective because our brains process it much more quickly.

Polyptoton is a figure of speech that involves the repetition of words derived from the same root (such as “blood” and “bleed”). For instance, the question, “Who shall watch the watchmen?” is an example of polyptoton because it includes both “watch” and “watchmen.”

Chiasmus refers to a sequence of elements of a sentence or verse, paragraph, chapter or even book which are then repeated and developed – but in reverse order. You can see “sabbath” and “man” are repeated in the sentence but in reverse order.

Definitions of chiasm. noun. an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X. synonyms: chiasma, decussation.

Noun. 1. chiasm – an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X. chiasma, decussation. anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure – a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; “he has good bone structure”

Medical Definition of chiasm

1. completely confused or disordered having or showing great love and support for your country.
2. scathingly harsh narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned.

(ˌkaɪæzˈmætɪk) adj. relating to the intersection of the optic nerve fibres at the bottom of the brainshowing or characterized by the development of chiasmata. Complete English Grammar Rules.

The structure of a chiasmus is pretty simple, so they aren’t difficult to craft. All you have to do is make up the first half of the sentence, and then flip a couple of words around for the second half.

Antimetabole is a figure of speech in which a phrase is repeated, but with the order of words reversed. John F. Kennedy’s words, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” is a famous example of antimetabole.

Antimetabole by definition features the reuse of words in the first and second halves of a sentence. Chiasmus does not feature repeating words; rather it involves two phrases, where the second phrase is merely a conceptual inversion of the first one.

Periphrasis is both a grammatical principle and manner of speaking that uses more words than necessary to evoke a certain meaning. For example, a person might not know or remember the word for “bee” in a different language and instead say, “a yellow and black thing that makes honey.”

In linguistics, periphrasis (/pəˈrɪfrəsɪs/) is the usage of multiple separate words to carry the meaning of prefixes, suffixes or verbs, among other things, where either would be possible.

Periphrasis originates from the Greek word periphrazein, which means “talking around.” It is a stylistic device that can be defined as the use of excessive and longer words to convey a meaning which could have been conveyed with a shorter expression, or in a few words.

A roundabout way of referring to something by means of several words instead of naming it directly in a single word or phrase. Commonly known as ‘circumlocution’, periphrasis is often used in euphemisms like passed away for ‘died’, but can have a more emphatic effect in poetry, as in the use of kennings.

As nouns the difference between paraphrasing and periphrasis is that paraphrasing is a paraphrased statement while periphrasis is the use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example “i am going to” instead of “i will”.