Rhetorical Appeals and Devices
Stevenson opens Just Mercy with his credentials. This is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
Ethics
What disorder did Walter suffer from after being released from prison?
Dementia
Bryan Stevenson graduated from Yale Law School
False.
He graduated from Harvard Law.
Avery Jenkins was mentioned when sharing the facts and statistics about mentally ill prisoners. After taking on the case and meeting Jenkins for the first time, what was he always asking for?
a chocolate milkshake
Instead of mistreating a number of disadvantaged groups, Stevenson says we should show them what?
Mercy
Justice
Grace
In Chapter 12, Stevenson shares facts and statistics about poor and incarcerated women. This is an example of which appeal?
Logic
This boy was charged with murder after killing his mothers abusive boyfriend.
Charlie
The woman Ian shot, Debbie Baigre, was the same woman who called and requested his sentence be shortened.
True
This client was charged as an accomplice to the Ronda Morrison murder after providing Stevenson with evidence that proves Walter's innocence.
Darnell Houston
Stevenson says we have a history of mistreating which groups? Name at least two.
Poor
Disfavored
Accused
Incarcerated
Condemned
Stevenson describes the legal system as a war against the underprivileged. Which rhetorical device is this?
Think figurative language.
Metaphor
This woman suffers from PTSD after being attacked by police dogs.
Mrs. Williams
Despite going into labor, Trina remained handcuffed to her bed.
True
This is the woman who had an affair with Walter McMillan. She later felt she was to blame for Walter's outcome.
Karen Kelly
Where does the funding for the EJI come from?
Before Herbert Richardson was executed, he requested that a song be played as he was escorted. Read the text below:
He began to sing. He had tremendous baritone voice that was strong and clear. It startled me and the guard, who stopped his pushing. I'm pressing on, the upward way New Heights I'm gaining, everyday still praying as I'm onward bound Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. It was an old hymn they used to sing all the time in the church where I grew up.
What rhetorical device was being used here?
Emotion
This person was hired @ EJI and struggled with drug addiction in his earlier years.
Michael O'Connor
Walter was the 63rd person to be exonerated.
False.
He was the 50th
This client was stabbed 9 times while at St. Clair Correctional Facility.
Evan
What was so ironic about the Tutwiler prison?
Julia Tutwiler was an advocate for prison education and creating humane living conditions for the incarcerated, yet the prison named after her is considered the worst prison in the US.
Stevenson makes a connection to To Kill a Mockingbird, which rhetorical choice does this appeal to?
Think figurative language.
Allusion
This client was 13 years old when he was arrested.
Joe
Due to the increasing numbers of incarceration, a new prison opened every 3 days in the US.
False.
A new prison opened every ten days.
This woman was imprisoned and charged with capital murder for the death of her still born child.
Marsha Colbey
Why are prisons an unsafe environment for mentally ill prisoners?
The environment is not set up to help and treat the inmates in any way. Some could simply not know any better and be taken advantage of and/or abused.