Question

Read the following excerpt from Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech, and listen to the audio. As you review the speech, think about its historical context. Choose one example from the excerpt that shows strong emotional language or exaggeration. Why does Roosevelt choose to use such emotional language or exaggeration in the example you selected?

Answer 1

"In times like these it is immature — and incidentally, untrue — for anybody to brag that an unprepared America, single-handed, and with one hand tied behind its back, can hold off the whole world.” He is saying this because he believes that the United States could handle the problem by itself but would rather not.
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Answer 2

The correct answer is the following.

In this part of the “Four Freedom’s” speech, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tries to warn people on the increasing risks.

The emotional language he uses can be found in the excerpt “That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of the bomb.” Here, Roosevelt uses emotion to warn people of the new order the dictators could create in the world if countries such as the United States remains passive. And Roosevelt adds: “To that new order we oppose the greater conception-the moral order.” Here Roosevelt appeals to the moral san values and to do the right thing to overcome those dangers.