Read the excerpt. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. Which rhetorical device in this excerpt from John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address is being used? I would say antithesis is being used by JFK ie by turning the question around of what your country can do for you to what you can do for your country he grabs the interest of the audience by coming up with the opposite meaning.
