How do the audiences of Kennedy’s speech and King’s letter compare?
Both Kennedy and King addressed a large, general audience.
Both Kennedy and King addressed a small, specific audience.
Kennedy addressed a smaller, more specific audience, while King addressed a larger, more general audience.
Kennedy addressed a larger, more general audience, while King addressed a smaller, more specific audience.

What are Kennedy and King both trying to persuade their audiences to do?
denounce wrongful acts
take action to improve the country
unite against poverty, war, and disease

3. How does the tone of Kennedy’s speech differ from the tone of King’s letter?
Kennedy’s tone is pleading, while King’s tone is insistent.
Kennedy’s tone is optimistic, while King’s tone is hopeless.
Kennedy’s tone is positive, while King’s tone is condemning.
Kennedy’s tone is apprehensive, while King’s tone is fearless.

4. Which uses repetition as a persuasive technique?
Kennedy (Inaugural Address)
King (Letter from a Birmingham Jail)
Both Kennedy and King

5. Why does Martin Luther King use allusion (a reference to something or someone that is known from history) in his letter?
King alludes to Hitler to appeal to the emotions of his audience.
King uses Biblical allusions to appeal to the morality of his audience.
King refers to Catholic and Jewish philosophers to appeal to the logic of his audience.
All of the above.

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