Commonwealth Period
Colonial/Puritan Period
Witch trials/1st Great Awakening/Religious and community fallout
The Age of Reason/
Romanticism
Transcendentalism/
Age of Realism
100
Which rhetorical strategy was the most important in the commonwealth era?
Ethos
100
Who is a governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in this era?
John Winthrop
100
Where did the Salem Witch trials take place?
Salem, Massachusetts
100
The age of reason was based on what rhetorical strategy?
Logos
100
What was the essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Self-Reliance
200
Who does John Smith write to in his letter in 1607?
The British crown and moneybackers in Britain
200
Who did John Winthrop write to in "Reasons for emigrating to New England"?
Puritains facing the possibility of religious prosecution
200
What RA strategy prevailed in the Great Awakening era?
Logos (science and logic)
200
Who was a founding father that based everything on logic and emotion?
Benjamin Franklin
200
Transcendentalism is the relationship between what three things?
God, Man, and Nature
300
Who is John Smith?
Claims to be the savior of Jamestown, assigned to bring people from England, a bombastic writer
300
What is anecdotal evidence?
Evidence given through a story/small personal accounts
300
In sinners in the hands of an angry God, what was Jonothan Edwards' purpose?
He uses fear to convince people to follow a religious lifestyle
300
Romanticism was a reaction to what period?
Enlightenment Period
300
What does Jonathan Swift use in "A Modest Proposal" to propose to the government of Ireland that poor children should be sold to the rich people to be eaten?
Satire and Irony
400
What does SOAPSTRa stand for?
Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone, Rhetorical analysis
400
What rhetorical strategy was most important during the colonial/puritan period?
Ethos
400
What caused religion and community fallout?
The aristocracy problem with the rich ruling, using God to rule, people being greedy for wealth and power
400
What was inhumane, and at odds with human characteristics, that romantics believed?
Science
400
What essay did Henry David Thoreau write about ignoring the policies and government of a state or nation when the civil laws are unjust?
Civil Disobedience
500
What is a paradox?
a situation that is contradictory
500
How should a rhetorical analysis essay dissect text from a document?
Beginning, middle, and end
500
What is ad hominem?
An argument or reaction directed against a person rather than the position of their argument
500
What is significant about Edgar Allen Poe?
His dark romanticism and the mystery surrounding his life
500
What are the levels of humor from lightest to darkest/harshest?
Parody, Sarcasm, Satire, Sardonic, Epithet
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