Grammar / Language
"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation" the opening line of the Gettysburg Address, means what?
"Eighty seven years ago, our early leaders created a new nation here."
Formally request or seek help from
Petition
A list of amendments James Madison wrote, in which Congress passed and the states later ratified, are called _____?
The Bill of Rights
Define biography
A type of narrative nonfiction that tells the story of someone's life.
The following sentence is an example of what type of persuasive appeal?:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness... it is the Right of the People to .... institute a new Government."
Logos
Unfavorable opinions or feelings formed beforehand or without factual support
In Benjamin Franklin's "Speech in the Convention," whose opinion does he believe is key to a government's strength and efficiency?
He believes that the people must have an opinion of the goodness of that government and of its leaders' wisdom and integrity.
Political figure born into a family of humble means, serving in the Illinois state legislature, and later becoming the 16th president of the U.S. He gave the Gettysburg address.
Abraham Lincoln
"This time John assured Abigail 'Your sentiments of the importance of education in women are exactly agreeable to my own,' though women who displayed their wits were contemptible, he felt impelled to add."
In this excerpt from "Dear Abigail," what does "contemptible" mean?
One's actions deserving scorn, disdain, or disgust
Absolute rule; tyranny
Despotism
In "Letter to John Adams," what advice does Abigail Adams give her husband, regarding women's rights?
She urges John to allow women greater freedom from their husbands and a voice and representation in making laws.
"Human history is a balancing act between the desire for individual freedom and the need to protect everyone's freedom," is a sentence from what text?
"Totally Free?"
The following sentence is an example of what literary structure / device?:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor shall excessive fines be imposed, nor shall cruel and usual punishments be inflicted.
Parallel Structure
Ways of framing ideas for specific effect
Persuasive Appeals
What text is the following excerpt drawn from?:
"Every circumstance I met with served only to render my state more painful and heightened my apprehensions and my opinion of the cruelty of the whites."
"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano" by Olaudah Equiano
What text is the following excerpt from?:
"We, the representatives of the USA in General Congress.. by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are and of right out to be free and independent states...absolved from all allegiance to the Crown."
The Declaration of Indepdence
_______ is an important characteristic of the style used in the Bill of Rights. A serial comma is present in this demonstration of parallel structure, in which items are listed in a series.
Enumeration
Strong words with powerful connotations, as well as references to the divine, concepts like fairness or justice, and stories / anectdotes
Charged Language
From "America's Constitution: A Biography" by Akhil Reed Amar, when and where does he note that the Constitution was drafted?
(I need year and city).
It was drafted in Philadelphia, in the summer of 1787.
Amendment VI (6) notes the right for what?
The right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury