Question

read this sentence from paragraph 3 of kennedy’s address.
we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
which rhetorical device appears in this sentence, and what is its purpose?

• device: parallelism (because they are easy / because they are hard)

effect: to cause listeners concern about the dangers of the moon mission

• device: parallelism (because they are easy / because they are hard)

effect: to inspire listeners to support the moon mission

• device: analogy (that goal will serve to organize . . . our energies and skills)

effect: to inspire listeners to support the moon mission

• device: analogy (that goal will serve to organize . . . our energies and skills)

effect: to cause listeners concern about the dangers of the moon mission

Explanation:

1. Analyze the rhetorical device: The phrase "because they are easy" and "because they are hard" shows parallel structure (parallelism), not analogy (analogy would compare two unlike things, here it's a contrast in structure).
2. Analyze the effect: Kennedy's speech about going to the moon aims to inspire support, not cause concern about danger. The parallelism emphasizes the choice to take on hard tasks to utilize skills/energies, inspiring listeners to support the mission.

Answer:

B. Device: parallelism (because they are easy / because they are hard)
Effect: to inspire listeners to support the moon mission