AnswersTwilight Session 1 Fall 26 Literature and Composition I_CThompsonRhetoric and Structure in Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech

Rhetoric and Structure in Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech Answers

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Read the excerpts from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech and Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address.”Roosevelt:This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.Lincoln:To be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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achieving victory no matter what the cost.
B
ending the war as quickly as possible.
C
preserving freedom far into the future.
D
making tough sacrifices for one’s nation.
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A
claim
B
evidence
C
rebuttal
D
conclusion
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What were the intended effects of the rhetorical appeals used in this section of Roosevelt’s speech? Select 3 options.

A
to describe for Americans the potential dangers of not joining in the war
B
to remind Americans that they have always stood and fought for democracy
C
to convince Americans that joining in the war was the absolute right thing to do
D
to encourage Americans to enlist in the military so as to help fight in the war
E
to persuade Americans that support for the war would ultimately lead to victory
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Read the excerpts from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech and Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address.”Roosevelt:This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.Lincoln:Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

A
Equality is an important American value.
B
The future of America is largely unknown.
C
Freedom is only achieved through struggle.
D
Civil war is an evitable part of any nation.
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Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech.No person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of this program; and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation.

A
values.
B
reason.
C
feelings.
D
character.
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Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech.That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.To that new order we oppose the greater conception—the moral order.

A
warn of increasing danger.
B
outline the plan for attack.
C
make him sound credible.
D
define the word tyranny.
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Read the excerpts from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech and Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address.”Roosevelt:This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.Lincoln:To be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

A
honor
B
freedom
C
victory
D
strength
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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 the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

A
Fighting one war to escape a future war is not logical.
B
Joining the war will not keep America safe from attack.
C
Americans will be attacked if they do not join in the war.
D
A world free from fear is not possible in the near future.
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Read the excerpts from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms" speech and Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address.”Roosevelt:I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call.A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes. In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying today.Lincoln:Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

A
appreciate what others have already given.
B
make sacrifices for democratic principles.
C
follow what the government asks or expects.
D
enlist in the military and fight for freedom.
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Which ideas are addressed by both Roosevelt and Lincoln? Select 2 options.

A
the importance of equality
B
the importance of freedom
C
the importance of taxation
D
the importance of avoiding war
E
the importance of lost soldiers

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