Argument and Rhetoric
Who is Aristotle?
In Tommy Orange's short essay, this symbol was cast on television screens across America to remind Natives of their subjugation.
What is the Indian Head test pattern?
He wrote a short story about a young puritan who travels in to the woods and meets the devil, and to his surprise, all the people of his village.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
In "Young Goodman Brown", this object symbolized innocence and purity.
What is Faith's pink ribbons?
She was kidnapped from Africa when she was a child and sold into slavery. She became a prolific writer and poet.
Who is Phillis Wheately?
This is the emotional appeal
In Susan Power's narrative, "Museum Indians" her mother often visits this animal and feels a bond with it.
What is the Buffalo or Bison?
In the short story, "Young Goodman Brown", Nathaniel Hawthorne alludes to this biblical story.
The story of Adam and Eve.
In "Young Goodman Brown", the devil explains to Goodman Brown that his father set fire to an Indian Village during King Phillip's war. Here the author is referencing a story from history that most Americans are familiar with. He is using this device.
What is an allusion?
He believed that humans, by nature, are well intentioned and good and that slavery goes against our very nature. He was self-educated and wrote an autobiography detailing this belief.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This appeal deals with ethics. The speaker attempts to show his or her authority to deal with a subject.
What is ethos?
In "Museum Indians" by Susan Power, her mother keeps this item in her drawer as a reminder of her cultural roots.
What is her lock of hair?
He delivered a fiery sermon detailing God's anger to a group of Puritans.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
The following quote is an example of this literary device where an author makes a comparison:
"There was what looked like a bullseye in the middle of the screen, with numbers like coordinates. The Indian head was just above the bullseye, like all you'd need to do was nod up in agreement to set the sights on the target. This was just a test."
What is a simile?
In "My Bondage and my Freedom" she was the mistress who stopped teaching young Frederick when her husband told her that slaves should not read.
Who is Mrs. Auld?
In an essay, this is the statement that the writer must prove.
What is a thesis statement?
In order to develop the central idea that Americans use the head of an Indian to remind them of their subjugation over Native Americans, Tommy Orange gives 3 examples that are called this.
This founding father wrote an account in his autobiography of a sermon that he witnessed by George Whitefield.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is a narrative or story in which the characters often stand for abstract concepts. For example some say that Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is one.
What is an allegory?
He was the son of slaves who wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson explaining the hypocrisy of embedded in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Benjamin Bannecker?
This is a short, personal story that a writer includes in order to prove a point.
What is an anecdote?
He is the Shawnee leader who wrote a speech to the Osages in an attempt to unify the tribes.
Who is Tecumseh?
This is one character trait of Puritans that seems to be an essential character trait in achieving the American Dream.
What is hard work?
Often an author reveals his or her purpose or intentions by choosing words or phrases that change the atmosphere or mood. When they do this they are shifting this.
What is their tone?
Frederick Douglass states "It was a glorious resurrection, from the 'tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact." Here Douglass is using this literary device to explain his epiphany.
What is an allusion?