Is it a claim?
Is it a claim? True or False
"In Massachusetts, where properly qualified "persons" were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a "person," and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar."
False
What Rhetorical Device is it?
"..tis like A star new born that drops into its place.."
Simile
What Claim is it?
"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned."
Claim of Value
Is It a claim? True or False
Fifty years ago the legal injustice imposed upon women was appalling.
True
What Rhetorical Device is it?
"By what toil and fatigue and patience and strife and the beautiful law of growth has all this been wrought?"
Rhetorical Question
What Claim is it?
"No married mother could have any right to her child, and in most of the states of the Union that is the law to-day."
Claim of Policy
Is It a claim? True or False
"I have seen many a widow who took the cups she had bought before she was married and bought them again after her husband died, so as to have them legally."
False
What Rhetorical Device is it?
"Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations."
Allusion
What claim is it?
"It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had it."
Claim of Fact
Is It a claim? True or False
We have now in twenty states school suffrage for women.
False
What Rhetorical Device is it?
"Wives, widows and mothers seemed to have been hunted out by the law on purpose to see in how many ways they could be wronged and made helpless."
Personification
What Claim is it?
"Fifty years ago the legal injustice imposed upon women was appalling. Wives, widows and mothers seemed to have been hunted out by the law on purpose to see in how many ways they could be wronged and made helpless."
Claim of Value
Is It a claim? True or False
The anti-slavery cause had come to break stronger fetters than those that held the slave.
True
What TWO Rhetorical Devices are shown?
"But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea, everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of education..."
Metaphor and Hyperbole
What Claim is it?
"Some of the abolitionists forgot the slave in their efforts to silence the women. The Anti-Slavery Society rent itself in twain over the subject."
Claim of Fact