Question

1. \we observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom —symbolizing an end as well as a beginning— signifying renewal as well as change. for i have sworn before you and almighty god the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.\ is the speaker appealing to authority, emotion, or logic? explain what type of rhetorical device is being used in the underlined text?

Explanation:

• Appeal Analysis:
• The speaker is appealing to authority. By mentioning "Almighty God" and the oath "our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago", the speaker is invoking a higher - power (God) and the established tradition (forebears' oath) as sources of legitimacy.
• Rhetorical Device:
• The underlined text uses parallelism. The phrases "an end as well as a beginning" and "renewal as well as change" have a similar grammatical structure, with "as well as" connecting two related concepts in each pair.

Answer:

• The speaker is appealing to authority.
• The rhetorical device used in the underlined text is parallelism.