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1. What purposes do you think this speech served? In what ways does it serve the traditional purpose of the jeremiad, which is to restore social stability? What else might the occasion have demanded of Robert F. Kennedy?

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   Questions: - What purposes do you think this speech served? In what ways does it serve the traditional purpose of the jeremiad, which is to restore social stability? What else might the occasion have demanded of Robert F. Kennedy?
2. What patterns can you see in the speech—parallel structures, repeated images—that helped Kennedy achieve the purposes of the speech?

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   Questions: - What patterns can you see in the speech—parallel structures, repeated images—that helped Kennedy achieve the purposes of the speech?
3. How does Kennedy establish common ground with his audience?

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   Questions: - How does Kennedy establish common ground with his audience?
4. A jeremiad has been described as a rhetorical appeal that calls for its audience to affirm rather than to question the reasons for their problems. John M. Murphy, writing about this address in Quarterly Journal of Speech, notes, “The [American] jeremiad deflects attention away from the possible institutional or systemic flaws and toward considerations of individual sin. Redemption is achieved through the efforts of the American people, not through a change in the system itself… . The jeremiad, then, serves as a rhetoric of social control.” How does this speech draw a direct connection between the self and society? How does this speech encourage social control?

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   Questions: - A jeremiad has been described as a rhetorical appeal that calls for its audience to affirm rather than to question the reasons for their problems. John M. Murphy, writing about this address in Quarterly Journal of Speech, notes, “The [American] jeremiad deflects attention away from the possible institutional or systemic flaws and toward considerations of individual sin. Redemption is achieved through the efforts of the American people, not through a change in the system itself… . The jeremiad, then, serves as a rhetoric of social control.” How does this speech draw a direct connection between the self and society? How does this speech encourage social control?
5. How does Kennedy connect his plea for nonviolence to his social agenda?

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   Questions: - How does Kennedy connect his plea for nonviolence to his social agenda?