Coventions&Style
The structure of sentences
What is syntax?
A cruel and oppressive government or rule.
What is tyranny?
This Latin root means "right" or "straight", and can also mean "guide" or "rule"
What is rect
Writing that is meant to get readers to think in a certain way or take a particular action.
What is argument
The eighteenth-century style that appears in paragraphs 28-29 (focus on syntax)
What is, each paragraph consists of one long, complicated sentence.
Expression of approval or agreement
-Rect- can be found in the following 3 words: When an answer is right, the person who tells actors what to do, an elongated square.
What are correct, director, rectangle?
Three types of persuasive appeals mentioned in MyPerspectives, page 25
What are appeals to emotions, appeals to logic, appeals to authority
"We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow this usurpations"
In Jefferson's context, conjured means "pleaded with". What does the verb, conjure, mean today?
What is "to create or imagine something"
What is to summon something with magic
Jefferson stated that all Americans are "endowed by their creator with certain (blank) rights"
What are unalienable rights
The basic definition of rectitude using an understanding of the Latin root
What is rightness or correctness
The appeal to emotion found in paragraph 1
Jefferson uses some words that would rarely be used today. In paragraph 3, page 19, hath shown, usurpations, evinces and sufferance represent
What is an earlier style of English?
To accept something reluctantly but without protest
What is acquiesce?
Modern equivalent of rectitude
What is correct, moral, good
Charged language: strong words with powerful connotations.
In paragraph 2, how does the description of Great Britain and King George constitute charged language? (Remember the close read questions, and Jefferson's switch from formality to strong language)
What is Jefferson contrasts the king's abuses with the colonists rights
Rewrite this excerpt in modern English: He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
What is: The King has refused to agree to laws that are important to the people.
What is: He has ignored all laws that could help the people.
What is: The King has refused to agree to laws that are important to the welfare of the colonists.
Morally correct behavior or thinking
What is rectitude?
The meaning of rectify as it relates to chemistry
What is to use distillation to refine or purify a solution
Jefferson included an organized list of grievances to ensure the document wasn't discounted as purely emotional, but also appealed to this, which was valued during the Age of Reason, when it was written
What is logic