Question

read the following excerpt from president john f. kennedys \we choose to go to the moon\ speech. then, answer the question that follows. and finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. which rhetorical device does kennedy use to support his argument? antithesis: he is contrasting space with babies irony: he is saying the opposite of what he means about infancy figurative language: he is using personification to explain the newness of the idea of space exploration rhetorical question: he issues a statement about space in the form of a question

Explanation:

Kennedy describes the space effort as "still in its infancy," which is personification—giving the non-human space program a human life stage. This is a type of figurative language. The other options are incorrect: there is no contrast of space and babies (antithesis), no opposite meaning (irony), and no question framed as a statement (rhetorical question).

Answer:

Figurative language: he is using personification to explain the newness of the idea of space exploration