The Rights to the Streets of Memphis
Who was the author?
Richard Wright
What are the three parts?
The speaker, the audience, and the subject
"The data is perfectly clear: this investment has consistently turned a profit year-over-year, even in spite of market declines in other areas."
Logos
Where was she from?
Ruleville, Mississippi
Who were the two main characters?
Tom and Clare Benecke
What kind of writing is this story, where the author writes about himself?
Autobiography
What text did we read that told us about the Triangle?
"What is Rhetoric?"
"As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results."
Ethos
What was her occupation before she was fired for registering to vote?
Sharecropper
Where is Clare during most of the story?
At the movies
Which vocabulary word from the story means extreme or absolute?
Stark
Who came up with this idea?
Aristotle
Which appeal is the strongest?
Pathos
What drastic thing happened to her when she went to a voter registration workshop?
She was arrested, and she was beaten in jail.
What was on the paper that was so important?
Months of notes Tom took for a spring display for the grocery store
What is the ultimatum that Richard's mother gives him?
There are two possible answers.
Either go get the groceries or live out on the streets.
Also acceptable: Either go stand up to those boys or I will whip you myself.
These three elements can be substituted into the triangle in place of the speaker, the audience, and the subject.
Ethos-speaker, Pathos-Audience, Logos- Subject
"If we don’t move soon, we’re all going to die! Can’t you see how dangerous it would be to stay?"
Pathos
Who whipped her in jail, and why?
Two other black male prisoners. They had to obey the officers or face punishment themselves.
What decision does Tom make regarding the paper?
He decides to go out on the ledge of the building to get it.
With what does he associate his hunger, and with what result?
He associates it with his father, and he starts hating his father as a result.
What are the two parts omitted from the Triangle?
Aim and Context
The best advertisements use which appeal?
All of them
What is Fannie Lou Hamer's key phrase?
(There are two answers that could work. 100 points to the team that gives both, regardless of if it is their question.)
"I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired." "We're on Our Way."
In “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket,” Tom has an important realization during his terrible experience on the ledge. What is this realization?
He needs to spend more time with his wife.