Rhetoric in Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University – Flashcards

Read the excerpt from President Ronald Reagan's Address at Moscow State University. The explorers of the modern era are the entrepreneurs, men with vision, with the courage to take risks and faith enough to brave the unknown. These entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. They are the prime movers of the technological revolution. In fact, one of the largest personal computer firms in the United States was started by two college students, no older than you, in the garage behind their home. Some people, even in my own country, look at the riot of experiment that is the free market and see only waste. What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way; yes, it's what they learned from failing. Like an athlete in competition or a scholar in pursuit of the truth, experience is the greatest teacher. Which is a substantiated opinion?

Read the excerpt from President Reagan's Address at Moscow State University. But progress is not foreordained. The key is freedom—freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication. Which is true of these lines?

A substantiated opinion is best supported by

The recurrence of words or phrases in a rhetorical device is known as

Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's Address at Moscow State University. Freedom, it has been said, makes people selfish and materialistic, but Americans are one of the most religious peoples on Earth. Because they know that liberty, just as life itself, is not earned but a gift from God, they seek to share that gift with the world. "Reason and experience," said George Washington in his farewell address, "both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. And it is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government." Check all that apply. The underlined words in this excerpt are

Read the line from President Reagan's Address at Moscow State University. Go into any schoolroom, and there you will see children being taught . . . certain unalienable rights—among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What is the purpose of this line?

Which line from President Reagan's Address at Moscow State University best substantiates his opinion that small businesses are moving the technological revolution?

Making a bandwagon appeal in a persuasive speech is an example of using

A rhetorical device uses language to .

The audience for President Reagan's Address at Moscow State University included young college students. This is important because one of the purposes of the speech was to