Rhetoric and Structure in Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech
Question 13 • Twilight Session 1 (Fall 26): Literature and Composition I_CThompson
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms.”The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of
Answer
F
Fighting one war to escape a future war is not logical.
J
Joining the war will not keep America safe from attack.
A
Americans will be attacked if they do not join in the war.
A
A world free from fear is not possible in the near future.
Explanation
Roosevelt says this world is “not a vision of a distant millennium” and is attainable “in our own time and generation.” That directly contrasts with the claim that a world free from fear is not possible in the near future, so choice D is the antithesis.
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