SPACECAT
Why did Obama give the speech that day?
Rosa Parks 100th Birthday
What were the two tone shifts used
Informative to humility and cold objectivity to uplifting
What 2 writing style were used?
Punctuation and Sentence Fragment
What were the rhetorical devices used?
Repetition and understatement
What makes Obama special in giving the speech?
He is the president of the United States and gets to commemorate Rosa Parks actions
Where and when was this speech given?
National Statuary Hall of the United States Capital building in February 27 2013
How can line 25 when people started to boycott. As well as on line 40 "Black men and women and children re-boarded the buses of Montgomery." be seen as uplifting?
It showed her arrest created a movement that created change
What punctuation was specifically used for evidence?
dashes
"Through rain and cold and sweltering heat, day after day, week after week, month after month." What rhetorical device is displayed here?
Repetition
Which rhetorical appeal was used least?
Logos
What were 2 rhetorical choices used?
Tone shift, Punctuation, Sentence Fragment, or Repetition are all correct
How is cold objectivity tone shown?
with the form she replied to the police officers threat
What tone was presented from the sentence fragment example used.
Scornful
"Her quiet leadership would continue long after she became an icon of the Civil Rights movement." What rhetorical device is shown here?
Understatement
Pathos - what is the main emotion Obama wants to get from the reader in the example we presented?
To push people to fight for what they believe in.
Who is the main targeted audience?
Activist and/or strong believers of issue.
"Long before she made headlines she stood up for freedom, stood up for equality."
"She tells us we all have responsibilities."
This was evidence for which tone shift?
Informative to humility
"she simply replied "you may do that." And he did"
This was used as evidence for which writing style?
Sentence fragment
"Through rain and cold and sweltering heat, day after day, week after week, month after month."
This is an example of which rhetorical device?
Repetition
Tone shift from informative to humility was used for which appeal?
Pathos
What was Obamas overarching main message?
He wanted to encourage fighting for change
How does humility persuade an audience of Obamas message?
It reminds them that anyone can make a difference
How was punctuation used to convey Obamas message?
It brings a tone of despair, which shows even in those situations, fighting is what caused a change to occur.
How is repetition used to persuade the audience of Obamas message?
It can show how long it took for change to occur, but at the end of the day, standing their ground is what created the change.
How does the speaker show ethos?
President of the United States