President Kennedy makes intensive use of parallelism and antithesis for the sake of persuasion and to make his speech more appealing to the audience. Antithesis is a rhetorical device which is used to contrast two ideas or things in a parallel sentence. Parallel structure is a literary device which consist of a repetition of some pattern of words. These stylistic devices offer the reader a more pleasant speech as well as it makes the speech easy to understand the main idea of the thought.
Example: "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."
Answer:
Rude
Explanation:
Polite is a synonym for nice, and nice is an antonym for rude, making polite an antonym for polite too.
Answer:
Writers probably stayed away from everyone else and also might have stayed inside. I don't know who exactly it was but people probably didn't create the painting until after the plague. They probably just imagined what the plagues would have been like. Some people survived because they either lived somewhere else or something else like that. Famous People who have died from Bubonic Plague (Yersinia pestis) infection: 429 BC - Pericles - Greek Statesman. 251 - Hostilian (Gaius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus) (Roman Emperor 251 AD) (251 AD) 664 - Saint Cedd (Missionary Bishop, Northumbria).
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