Rhetoric
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
Contemporary Views
100
A question to which no answer is expected because the answer is obvious.
What is a rhetorical question?
100
In Henry's call to action, he stated "Give me ________ or give me _______.
What is liberty and death?
100
The audience Paine was addressing
Who are the colonial armies?
100
The audience for whom the Declaration was written
What is the foreign nations of the world?
100
Martin Luther King Jr. based his ideas of non-violent protest on this man's philosphy
Who is Ghandi?
200
A method of organizing a persuasive speech or essay
What is the Monroe Motivated Sequence?
200
What Henry accomplishes by noting the the opposition's claims have merit.
What is concession to the opposition?
200
Paine tells a story about a man and a boy at a tavern, which represents this rhetorical device
What is an anecdote?
200
The Declaration asserts these three rights
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
200
King describes the United States as having written a "bad check" for freedom to African Americans. This is an example of what
What is an analogy?
300
Repeating the structure of a sentence or phrase in subsequent sentences
What is parallelism?
300
The Virgina Convention represents this type of audience
What is a hostile audience?
300
"The Crisis" is written with this kind of tone
What is inspirational?
300
The tone of the Declaration of Independence
What is informational?
300
When the interviewer asks Malcolm X if he is "preaching a sort of anarchy," he is using this kind of language
What is loaded language (connotation)?
400
A comparison used to show similarities between situations
What is an analogy?
400
Henry felt that the colonies must fight or do this
What is to settle for slavery?
400
Paine compares the king to this
What is a murder or a thief?
400
The rhetorical device used in the Declaration's lengthy list of complaints against the king
What is parallelism?
400
Malcolm X said that people have a right to defend themselves if these are threatened
What are life and property?
500
The reasons you give for taking a side in a debate
What is an argument?
500
The rhetorical device Henry uses when he talks about the siren
What is an allusion?
500
The famous event prior to which "The Crisis" was read
What is the crossing of the Delaware by Washington?
500
The conditions under which the Declaration says it is acceptable to overthrow the government
What is when the government stops protecting the rights of the people?
500
King alludes to this when he begins his "I Have a Dream" speech with the phrase "five score"
What is Lincoln's Gettysburg address?
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