Identifying Appeals
What is the primary rhetorical appeal that relies on the author's credibility, character, and trustworthiness?
What is ethos?
What food item did Douglass trade with neighborhood boys to secretly learn how to read?
What is bread?
When Douglass begins his book with a preface written by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, a prominent abolitionist, he is using this to immediately boost which appeal?
What is ethos?
Douglass writes that ____________ is a necessary ingredient of slavery because controlling people is a lot easier when they are uneducated.
The frequent description of the painful whipping of his Aunt Hester is a prime example of Douglass using which rhetorical appeal?
What is pathos?
The man known for "breaking" slaves, whose cruelty inspired Douglass to fight back was named what?
Who is Mr. Covey?
Douglass's description of his mother's death, stating he felt no deeper emotion than when he heard of the death of a stranger, is effective because it demonstrates how slavery destroyed this basic human need?
What is a need for affection, family, or social bonds?
The theme highlighted by Douglass when he discusses how the most "religious" and "pious" slaveholders were often the most cruel and brutal.
What is hypocrisy?
When Douglass includes detailed schedules of his completed tasks for Mr. Covey in Chapter 10, he is primarily building which appeal?
What is logos?
By focusing on how slavery destroys the slaveholder too by turning Mrs. Auld from a kind woman into a demon, Douglass shows that slavery ultimately __________ even the best people.
What is corrupts?
Douglass's logical argument that the only difference between the city and country is that the city slaves were able to gain knowledge and learn things is used to emphasize the importance of what concept for fighting slavery?
What is education?
The theme explored when Douglass notes that the slave songs were evidence not of happiness but of a profound sense of _______________.
What is sorrow/despair/misery?
When Douglass says, "We were all ranked together at valuation. Men ans women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine" he is using what persuasive appeal?
What is logos?
Upon arriving in Baltimore, Douglass described the city as a major step toward freedom, comparing it to being in __________ compared to the "doomed" country.
What is paradise or heaven?
Douglass often recounts truly brutal and horrific things in logical and data driven way. He does this so the audience doesn't just assume he is over __________ the violence enslaved people experienced.
what is exaggerating?
Douglass's fight with Covey best illustrates the theme that __________ is necessary to reclaim one's inherent human dignity.
What is resistance to injustice?
Douglass frequently opens chapters with an authoritative, matter-of-fact tone before transitioning to describing scenes of horror and violence. This shift is designed to establish his ethos before maximizing the effect of which other appeal?
What is pathos?
What is Bailey or Johnson?
When Douglass is asked to speak at the convention he ends up finding the task must easier and more fulfilling than he imagined. This is because he could finally do what for the abolitionist cause?
What is tell his own story?
By showing how the promise of emancipation on Christmas was often forgotten or ignored, Douglass explores the theme of slavery's reliance on the constant crushing of this fundamental human quality.
What is hope?