Read the excerpt from president kennedy's report to the american people.
this afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of alabama national guardsmen was required on the university of alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the united states district court of the northern district of alabama.
how did president kennedy structure this excerpt?
he used cause and effect to explain the events in alabama.
he compared and contrasted the us district court with the northern district of alabama.
he gave a personal interpretation of the events in alabama.

In this excerpt, President Kennedy used cause and effect to explain the events in Alabama.

Report to the American People was a speech delivered by the United States' President John F. Kennedy in 1963. In this speech, he addressed the issue of civil rights and he proposed that legislation be passed in order to protect them as well as to promote racial equality. Moreover, in the excerpt provided, Kennedy used cause and effect to explain what happened in Alabama: the series of threats and defiant statements are presented as the causes, while the effect is the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen in the University of Alabama to carry out the order that is mentioned in the passage.

i think the literacy device is "it's frozen head"

the positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. i think its this