At the time this speech was given, Berlin was a divided city. And Kennedy's language plays on that throughout—what a clever dude that JFK was. Beginning and ending with his assertion that he too...

First things first: what the anaphora is an anaphora? Easy-peasy lemon breezy: it's the repetition of phrases at the beginning of clauses. (Think: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of tim...

Kennedy makes a brief allusion to the Roman saying "civis Romanus sum" (3) as justification for his speaking in German when he says that he, too, is a Berliner. From that point on his most importan...