Speeches
The reason FDR wrote the Four Freedoms Speech
What is to persuade Congress/American people to involve themselves in WWII?
Not time, not money, not laws, and not trust
What is anaphora?
Place commas where they are needed: Kara who knew nothing about the students who cheated walked confidently to lunch to see her friends.
What is "Kara, who knew nothing about the students who cheated, walked confidently to lunch to see her friends"?
"So what does middle-class economics require in our time? First, middle-class economics means helping working families feel more secure in a world of constant change."
What is hypophora?
Define rhetoric.
What does RFK say MLK dedicated his life to?
What is justice for all human beings?
Are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who pick our fruit and make our beds never have a chance to get right with the law?
There ________ concerns, however, about the tests' accuracy and fairness.
What is are?
"We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation."
What is polysyndeton?
The year South Gibson County High School opened
What is 2009?
MLK alludes to what when he says "five score years ago"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
“America has tossed its cap over the wall of space!”
What is metaphor?
Neither Mr. Chen nor Mr. Cooper, however, feels that _______ customers find parking convenient enough.
"Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis. More of our kids are graduating than ever before. More of our people are insured than ever before. And we are as free from the grip of foreign oil as we’ve been in almost 30 years."
What is logos?
Where did Mrs. Duck graduate from college?
What is The University of Tennessee at Martin? (UTM)
The reason MLK Jr. was in Birmingham, Alabama
What is because injustice was there, he had organizational ties there, and he was invited there?
This uses TWO rhetorical devices: "...that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
What is parallelism and asyndeton?
My mother, for _____ I baked a cake, had her birthday party yesterday.
What is whom?
This uses TWO rhetorical devices: "It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children.“
What is tricolon and parallelism?
What are mentions his children, references patriotic songs, mentions them being God's children, etc.?
What are at least 3 of the 4 freedoms FDR says everyone should have?
What is freedom of speech, worship, from want, and from fear?
This uses TWO rhetorical devices: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
What is antithesis and parallelism?
_________ wants to go on the trip to Disney World next month should sign up now
What is whoever?
This uses TWO rhetorical devices: “It’s the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants settingout for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker’s son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.”
What is anaphora, parallelism, and pathos?
The year MLK's speeches were given
What is 1963?