" And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country."
This is an example of excluded middle. excluded middle is where only two options are given, leaving no gray area. However, there are clearly more options that contain a middle ground that are not mentioned. This is excluded middle because JFK only gives two choices, but there are definitely other options.
I believe that this speech is effective because of all the fallacies. fallacies are very common, but we would not use them if they didn't not work. They are technically fallacies to kind of trick people, but the work. He makes people fall in love with this great speech because it is so vague and many fallacies are used. Fallacies can be very persuasive. His phrases are also quite simple, clean, smooth, and easy to grasp so people naturally like it more.
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