Rhetoric
What are the three rhetorical appeals used to persuade an audience?
What are logos, pathos, and ethos?
Who authored The Crisis?
Who is Thomas Paine?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Who was a key Revolutionary Writer and the second President of the United States?
Who is John Adams?
What are the three/four major parts of an essay?
What is beginning, thesis, middle, and end?
What is "pathos"?
Which document articulated the reasoning for the American colonies wishing to separate from Great Britian?
Which phrase from the Declaration of Independence embodies the concept of personal freedom?
What are the rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?
What is the rhetoric used by Revolutionary Writers to persuade readers in their advocacy for Independence?
What is propaganda?
What is the claim or argument in an essay called?
What is a thesis?
What is ethos?
Where does The Crisis insinuate the government gets their authority for power?
What is the consent of the governed?
What are the two main themes of Revolutionary Writers?
Independence and Freedom
What kind of government did England have at the time of Revolution/still have?
What is a monarchy?
What are the three types of writing?
What are persuasive, informative, and entertainment?
What is the primary purpose of rhetoric in revolutionary writing?
What is to persuade and motivate action?
Which revolution was heavily influenced by European Enlightenment ideas?
What was the American Revolution?
Which founding father was responsible for the kite experiment, contributing to the Declaration of Independence, and other political ideals?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
What is the primary purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
Announcing independence from England.
What sentence should you never, ever, write in a persuasive or argumentative essay?
What is "I think..."?
To what is Patrick Henry referring to in his Speech at the Virginia Convention when he says, "Trust it not sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss,"?
What is the betrayal of Jesus by Judas?
Which "controversial" movement did some of the American Revolutionary writers support and make reference to in their writing?
What is the abolition of slavery?
What appeal is Patrick Henry making in The Crisis when he says, "I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us into submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motives for it? Has Great Britain an eneny in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies"?
What is LOGOS?
What are the first five freedoms listed in the First Amendment?
What makes a source credible?
What is evidence-based/peer-reviewed?