Rhetorical Devices
Historical Context
SOAPS
100

"Young people... Young people... Young people..."

What is anaphora?

100

The name of the march (also the location where the march began).

What is Selma?
100

The speaker delivering the speech.

Who is Barak Obama?

200

 "doors of opportunity"

What is personification?
200

The date the march started.

What is March 7?
200

The occasion of the speech.

What is the Selma March?

300

Which leads us to ask, just how might we repay this debt?

First and foremost, we have to recognize that one day’s commemoration, no matter how special, is not enough.

What is hypophora?

300

The number of people in the march.

What is 600?

300

The audience that the speech is directed to.

Who are the American People?

400

They saw that idea made real in Selma, Alabama. They saw it made real in America.

What is parrallelism?

400

The name of the bridge that the people in the Selma March crossed.

What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

400

The subject of the speech.

What is the commemoration of the Selma March and Bloody Sunday?

500

Young people behind the iron curtain ...


What is allusion?

500

The name of the Sunday in which the police violently attacked the people in the Selma march.

"Bloody Sunday"
500

The tone of the speech. (Must use at least one word used directly in the presentation to receive credit."

Assertive, deliberate or thoughtful.

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