The Age of Reason
Another name for the time period known as The Age of Reason.
What is The Enlightenment?
Many have called me the Father of Logic.
Who is Aristotle and what are rhetorical strategies?
Why would you ever take a test without studying?
What is a rhetorical question?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal..."
Who is Elizabeth Cady? Ethos
Use of a dash or colon for emphasis or stress.
What is emphatic punctuation?
What is rationalism?
Thanks to Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, mine was a household name.
Who is Thomas Paine and what is The Crisis, No. 1?
All that glitters is not gold.
What is an aphorism?
To unite the supremacy of Great Britain and the liberty of America is utterly impossible.
Who is Samuel Adams? Logos.
An extended comparison.
He is compared to a clockmaker; having created the perfect mechanism, he leaves it to run on its own.
Who is God?
I was elected governor of Virginia for five terms!
Who is Patrick Henry and what is the "Speech to the Virginia Convention"?
He tried to follow the strict diet, but chocolate was his Achilles' heel.
What is a literary allusion?
"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Who is Thomas Paine? Pathos
A brief story based on personal experience.
What is an anecdote?
A hybrid of the The Age of Faith and The Age of Reason, this Puritan minister was also a scientist who developed a vaccine for smallpox.
Who is Cotton Mather?
I couldn't understand why what was good for the goose wasn't good for the gander.
Who is Elizabeth Cady and what is "Declaration of Sentiments"?
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
What is parallelism?
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience..."
Who is Patrick Henry? Ethos
The arrangement of ideas from least to most important.
What is climactic order?
They believed that God is always available to anyone, people are basically good, and individuals and society can achieve perfection through reason.
Who are the Deists?
I get so fired up about freedom; I had to admit that I probably wasn't the best person to speak on it because I couldn't keep my cool.
Who is Samuel Adams and what is "American Independence".
Even though the it was cold and rainy, the parade continued.
What is periodic structure?
"The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history."
Who is Elizabeth Cady? Pathos
This term is used to describe a sentence in which the main subject and verb come right before the end of the sentence.
What is a periodic structure?