Historical Background
How many terms did Reagan serve?
What is 2 terms?
The use of phrases like "My fellow Americans," calling his wife by her first name, and setting a conversational tone helped Reagan do what?
What is connect with his audience?
What type of figurative language is the statement below? "Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it."
What is personification?
True of False: Reagan loved jelly beans so much Jelly Belly shipped jelly beans to the White House during all eight years of Reagan’s presidency and made jars with official presidential seals to be given out at functions
True
What political party did Reagan represent?
What is the republican party?
Mention of "the Oval Office," "the past 8 years of [Reagans] Presidency," and "I even remember one highly respected economist saying" builds credibility. Is this logos, ethos, or pathos?
What is ethos?
What type of figurative language is the statement below? "There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics"
What is a simile?
True or False: Reagan and first wife Jane Wyman acted as FBI informants in Hollywood before he became more involved in politics
True
(tipped off the Bureau to suspected Communist activity in Hollywood)
How many presidents came before Reagan?
What is 39 presidents?
(Reagan was the 40th)
"You know, 4 years ago on the 40th anniversary of D - day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who'd fought on Omaha Beach. Her name was Lisa Zanatta Henn, and she said, "we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did.'' Well, let's help her keep her word." Is this logos, ethos, or pathos?
What is pathos?
What type of figurative language is the statement below? "why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant"
What is allusion?
What was Reagan's nickname as president?
What is “The Great Communicator?”
Before becoming president, what was Ronald Reagan's profession?
What is an actor?
Does the statement below build pathos, ethos, or logos? "The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat. And crammed inside were refugees from Indochina hoping to get to America. The Midway sent a small launch to bring them to the ship and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood up, and called out to him. He yelled, "Hello, American sailor. Hello, freedom man.''
What is pathos?
What type of figurative language is the statement below? "And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?"
What is hypophora?
Which word did Ronald Reagan use more than any other president in American history?
What is freedom?
True or false: Reagan has proposed military spending of $1 trillion 341 billion, or almost $6,000 for every man, woman, and child in America.
True
Does the statement below build pathos, ethos, or logos? "The fact is, from Grenada to the Washington and Moscow summits, from the recession of '81 to '82, to the expansion that began in late '82 and continues to this day, we've made a difference"
What is logos?
The repetition of the word freedom was used to instill what feeling among Americans? (ex. "America is freedom -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise")
What is American values and patriotism?
What was Ronald Reagans favorite dessert?