Answer: Question 1.
This is a rather silly question as we do not know what his goal was. We can surmise that the purpose of the speech was to encourage Americans who did not want to be part of another European war to see the necessity of fighting the Axis powers, but, as America entered the war on the side of the UK after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, we might be led to believe that Roosevelt's speech was instrumental in this. This is only conjecture. Without the Japanese attack, would sufficient numbers of Congress have voted to go to war?
Question 2.
Roosevelt's main idea is that America should join the war on the UK's side in order to defend what he saw as the Four Freedoms - the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear. He argued that these would be under threat in the US if the Axis were victorious in Europe.
Question 3.
When writing a speech, use the first and second persons as this makes the speech appear to be expressing the ideas/wishes of the audience. I suggests that the speaker and the audience have similar ideas/ideals, and you gives the impression that the speaker feels that thye know what your ideas/ideals are.
Question 4.
The use of historical allusions is another feature of rhetorical speeches and usually harks back to a mythic past which people like to believe existed, and which is now seen as under threat. Such rhetorical devices also imply that in the past, there was unity of vision and purpose on the part of the populace, and this is what is needed now.
Question 5.
The structure of the speech is very clever. Each subsequent section builds upon and reinforces what has gone before. He made it appear that there was a direct link between the formation of the American republic ion terms of the founding principles, the so - called four freedoms; and the threats which not just the four freedoms face, but which, by extension, the US itself faces if the Axis win.
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