Rhetoric in Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University

7 February 2024
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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
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encourage new ideas, and young people are more likely to accept new ideas.
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Read the excerpt from President Reagan's Address at Moscow State University. 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. President Reagan includes the underlined question to
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raise an objection to his own opinion and counter that argument.
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Both Americans and Soviet citizens listened to President Reagan's Address at Moscow State University. Which best describes the different purposes of the speech for American and Soviet audiences?
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Reagan's purpose was to remind Americans of their freedoms and to encourage Soviets to allow more individual freedom.
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A substantiated opinion is best supported by
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expert opinions.
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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?
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Small businesses are the reason America has a strong economy.
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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?
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to persuade listeners of the importance of freedom
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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?
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Repetition is used to emphasize the importance of freedom.
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The recurrence of words or phrases in a rhetorical device is known as
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repetition