Catechism Quotes
“It is with infinite _______ that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again.” - Edmund Burke
What is "caution"?
Document written by Jean Jacques Rousseau that attempts to establish the purpose of government
What is The Social Contract?
Never married herself, she ridiculed the Romantic Age with her satires on love and marriage.
Who is Jane Austen?
Appealing to emotion
What is pathos?
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
Who is Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities?
The statement of what you are trying to prove in an essay
What is a thesis?
"...whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to ______ or to ______ it" - The Declaration of Independence
What is "alter" and "abolish"?
Chooses to live in England because he cannot bear to be associated with the cruel injustices of the French social system.
Who is Charles Darnay?
Double Jeopardy!!
He reveals that people should examine the darkness that is in their own hearts.
Who is Joseph Conrad?
Appealing to authority by using historical figures and factual information.
What is ethos?
Double Jeopardy!!
"I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress."
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America?
Double Jeopardy!
Having the character of being appealing, agreeable, gracious, pleasant; and generous in situations
What is winsome?
"The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still _____ _______ _______" - Jean Jacques Rousseau
What is "obey himself alone"?
Double Jeopardy!
You don't want to take a trip down the Congo river with this existential guide.
Who is Marlow?
This man opposed Booker T. Washington’s views, pushing for a more aggressive approach to civil rights.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
Giving credit to whom credit is due when writing
"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done -- done, see you! -- under the sky there, every day."
Who is Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities.
He learned that "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Who is Booker T. Washington?
“________ ________ is in itself a bad and dangerous thing; human beings are not competent to exercise it with discretion, and God alone can be omnipotent, because His wisdom and His justice are always equal to His power..." - Alexis de Tocqueville
What is "unlimited power"?
Pemberley
What is the name of Darcy's estate?
This poet's tribute to Abraham Lincoln dates back to 1865.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Double Jeopardy!
If you don't use this appeal, you probably sound illogical.
What is logos?
"They're right where we want them. All we have to do is swing around that way...and get between them and Lincoln and find some good high ground, and they'll have to hit us, they'll have to, and we'll have them, General, we'll have them!"
Who is General Longstreet?
Joshua Chamberlain's brother in The Killer Angels.
Who is Thomas?
Double Jeopardy!
"in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the _______ degree of comparison only." - Charles Dickens
What is "superlative"?
What Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross destroyed to help Dr. Manette
What is the shoemaker's table?
He sought to create empathy for those who "suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children..."
Who is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Helping the reader to create a mental picture or to experience your writing by using the five senses
What is imagery?
"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil--a natural defect, which not been the best education can overcome."
Who is Darcy in Pride and Prejudice?
Double Jeopardy!
A humorous poem that has a single stanza about a short, witty tale and an AABBC rhyme scheme
What is a limerick?
“There is, I believe, in every disposition (finish the quote).”
What is “a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”
The day the defense of Devil's Den AND Little Round Top took place in Killer Angels
What is the second day (July 2, 1863)?
Writer of The Killer Angels
Who is Michael Shaara?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair..." is an example of this literary device (double points if you can name two devices!)
What is antithesis, repetition, parallelism or anaphora?
Double Jeopardy!
"It is all my fault, it is all my fault. We shall rest and try it again another day. Now you must show good order. Never let them see you run."
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
Aristocrat who shows absolutely no regard for human life and wishes that the peasants of the world would be exterminated.
Who is the Marquis St. Evrémonde?
Double Jeopardy!!
"We are caught in an ________ ________ __ ________ , tied in a single garment of destiny"
What is "inescapable network of mutuality"?
Written as a letter, this document ridicules the aftermath of a revolution that sought to oust a monarchy and resulted in the establishment of an emperor.
What is "Reflections on the Revolution in France" by Edmund Burke?
Double Jeopardy!
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was a response to this letter by southern clergymen.
What is "A Call for Unity"?
The part of the essay that informs the reader what is most important and why, and to whom it matters and why.
What is the amplification?
"But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad. I had -- for my sins, I suppose -- to go through the ordeal of looking into it myself."
Who is Marlow in Heart of Darkness?
The university established by Booker T. Washington
What is the Tuskeegee Institute?