Rhetoric Review
These are the "points" of the rhetorical triange.
What are speaker, subject, audience?
This is where Truth was born
Where is New York state?
This was the occasion for the "Ain't/Ar'nt I A Woman?" speech.
What was the "Woman's Convention of Ohio"?
There may be more that one of this "point" or "points" of the rhetorical triangle.
What is all three of them?
This was her first language.
What is Dutch?
This is the name of the man who wrote a version of her speech. He was also a personal friend of Truth.
What/who is Marius Robinson?
This is the specific event that causes a speech or other communication to be made.
What is the "occasion?"
This is the kind of accent she would have had.
What is Dutch?
This is the name of the woman who wrote a version of her speech.
What is Frances Gage.
This is the social, historical, and cultural situation immediately surrounding the speech or communication.
What is the rhetorical situation?
These were the two causes she was most famous for advocating.
What are abolition and women's rights?
The Akron (Ohio) Women's Right Convention drafted proposals that were mostly rejected regarding women's rights to send to this important Convention.
What was the Ohio Constitutional Convention?
This is the the obstacle to be ovecome or the problem to be solved.
What is exigency?
This was the skill she was most famous for.
What is speaking, or oratory?
This woman was president of the Akron (Ohio) Women's Convention of 1852.
Who was Frances Gage?
These are the means by which the exigency (problem to be solved, obstacle to overcome,) is remedied.
Discourse, social cooperation, call to action.