Authors
Who invented the lightning rod?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Short sayings with a message.
What is Aphorism?
This passage is about how a tribe is preparing to celebrate the creation of the first man and woman using corn, feathers, and buckskin.
What is The Navajo Origin Legend?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
Where did this famous quote come?
What is The Declaration of Independence?
This is a speech where Patrick Henry denounces the British king and urges colonists to fight for independence.
What is the name of this?
What is Speech in the Virginia Convention?
Who was the main author of The Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The reputed weatherman said it will rain today.
What type of persuasion is this? (Ethos, Logos, Pathos)
What is Ethos?
The Modoc Indian tribe told this story of how the chief of the Sky Spirits grew tired of his home, so he went down to earth and created trees, water, and animals. The biggest of them all were grizzly bears.
What is the name of this story?
What is When Grizzlies Walked Upright?
Who said "...Give me Liberty or give me death!"?
Who is Patrick Henry?
Jonathan Edwards wrote a story on a man using different types of persuasion to convince people that they will be damned to hell if, if they don't turn to god.
What is the name of this story?
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
Who wrote Poor Richard's Almanack?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Patterns, words, or ideas that create emphasis, clarify meaning, and stir listeners' emotion.
What is rhetorical devices?
What are some symbols to represent abstract ideas, from The Earth on Turtle's Back?
What is the Great Tree, white roots, sacred directions, and animals?
Who said "I was soon reduced so low here that it was thought necessary to keep me almost always on deck; and from my extreme youth I was not put in fetters."?
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
This is a passage that tells the story of how the Five Nations came together to form a pact, or constitution.
What is the name of this story?
What is Iroquois Constitution?
Who was born in Yorkshire, England, and also joined a group of Puritans who believed that the church of England was corrupt?
Who is William Bradford?
"Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. So why start smoking?"
What type of persuasion is this? (ethos, logos, pathos)
What is Logos?
What is an explicit belief from The Navajo Origin Legend that involves the grizzle bears?
What is they held grizzlies sacred?
Who said "Gentlemen may cry, "Peace, peace" - but there is no peace."?
Who is Patrick Henry?
This passage tells the story of a explorer named Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. In this story, he performs the first surgery in Texas and encounters different Indian tribes, and they help each other and gift him.
What is the name of this story?
What is A Journey Through Texas?
Who was in the Atlantic Slave Trade and wrote a narrative on his life?
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
Symbols, patterns, or character types that repeat across cultures.
What is Archetypes?
The Earth on Turtle's Back is a origin myth. This story was about how a tree was uprooted, and the wife of the ancient chief of the Skyland fell through the hole and animals saved her by swimming down under the water and grabbing mud to create land.
What Indian tribe told this story?
What is Onondaga?
Who said "You are ten thousand times more abominable in his (God's) eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours..."?
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This is a passage written by a brilliant man about his success in life, and how he contributed to American literature and society.
What is The Autobiography?