Read the excerpt from ronald reagan's  "tear down this wall"  speech. where four decades ago there was rubble, today in west berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. where there was want, today there's abundance. which statement  best  explains the use of rhetoric in this paragraph? reagan uses repetition to focus attention on history. reagan uses hasty generalizations to encourage hope.  reagan uses parallelism to compare the past to the present. reagan uses hyperbole to emphasize changes that have taken place.

This famous speech that President Ronald Reagan gave on June 1987 in West Berlin, was to urge the senseless barrier that divided east and west to be removed.

Question: Which statement best explains the use of rhetoric in this paragraph?

C. Reagan uses parallelism to compare the past to the present.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

do you have part b? ?

explanation: