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| 7496757755 | Alliteration | Repetition of the sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence. | 0 | |
| 7496767850 | Alliteration | Let us go forth to lead the land we love... | 1 | |
| 7496781602 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art. | 2 | |
| 7496791021 | Allusion | Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah. | 3 | |
| 7496829878 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. | 4 | |
| 7496843391 | Anaphora | ... not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need-not as a call to battle, though embattled we are... | 5 | |
| 7496860819 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction. | 6 | |
| 7496873266 | Antithesis | We shall... support any friend, oppose any foe... | 7 | |
| 7496880014 | Archaic diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words. | 8 | |
| 7496891364 | Archaic diction | Beliefs for which our forebears fought. | 9 | |
| 7496909531 | Cumulative sentence | Sentence that completes the main ideas at the beginning of the sentence and the builds and adds on. | 10 | |
| 7496924149 | Cumulative sentence | 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. | 11 | |
| 7496957842 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order). | 12 | |
| 7496973818 | Inversion | United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do... | 13 | |
| 7496980896 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences. | 14 | |
| 7496994889 | Juxtaposition | We 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... | 15 | |
| 7497048475 | Metaphor | Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as. | 16 | |
| 7497052820 | Metaphor | And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion. | 17 | |
| 7497062144 | Oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another. | 18 | |
| 7497069205 | Oxymoron | But this Peaceful revolution... | 19 | |
| 7497073631 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 20 | |
| 7497085758 | Parallelism | 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... | 21 | |
| 7497108309 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end. | 22 | |
| 7497111141 | Periodic sentence | 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... | 23 | |
| 7497133374 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. | 24 | |
| 7497142391 | Personification | With history the final judge of our deeds. | 25 | |
| 7497146542 | Rhetorical question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. | 26 | |
| 7497157072 | Rhetorical question | Will you join in that historic effort? | 27 |
