Question

question 9 (multiple choice worth 2 points) (04.02f mc)read the following excerpt from president john f. kennedys we choose to go to the moon speech. then, answer the question that followsand 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 babiesfigurative language: he is using personification to explain the newness of the idea of space explorationirony: he is saying the opposite of what he means about infancyrhetorical question: he issues a statement about space in the form of a question

Explanation:

Kennedy uses the phrase "while still in its infancy" to describe the space effort, treating the non-human space program as a human infant. This is personification, a type of figurative language, to convey the newness of the space effort while highlighting its already large impact. The other options do not fit: there is no contrast of space and babies (antithesis), no opposite meaning (irony), and no rhetorical question.

Answer:

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