Rhetorical Appeals
This appeal convinces an audience by showing the speaker’s credibility or character.
What is ethos?
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The Declaration of Independence was adopted on this date.
What is July 4, 1776?
Patrick Henry delivered this speech to an assembly in 1775.
What is "Speech to the Virginia Convention?"
This type of question is not intended to be answered.
What is a rhetorical question?
This appeal convinces an audience by appealing to their feelings or emotions.
What is pathos?
Colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor in protest of this law.
What is the Tea Act?
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Thomas Jefferson described this speaker as having “more command over the passions than any man I ever knew.”
Who is Patrick Henry?
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience,” highlights this rhetorical device.
What is metaphor?
This appeal convinces an audience using facts, reasoning, and evidence.
What is logos?
These battles marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
What are The Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This document did not end the war, but was seen as a "break-up" letter to King George III.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
After helping to write Virginia’s state constitution, Henry was elected to this political seat.
What is governor?
“We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated…” is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is parallelism?
Patrick Henry’s famous line “give me liberty or give me death!” is an example of this appeal.
What is pathos?
This was the name of the reigning King of England during the Revolutionary War.
Who is King George III?
Jamestown was established in this present-day U.S. state.
What is Virginia?
Henry refers to this country's army as the colonists' "friends" in his speech.
Who are the French?
Henry’s speech makes extensive use of this rhetorical device to convey the theme of slavery.
What is extended metaphor?
“Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years,” highlights this rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
This war directly increased Britain’s taxes on the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
He primarily authored the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Before becoming a politician, Henry had this occupation.
What is a lawyer?
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts..." highlights this rhetorical device.
What is an allusion?