Text Features
The _________ "Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth proposes several reasons for why women should be equal to men. (HINT: IT IS A TEXT TYPE)
What is a speech?
Synonym for intellect
What is intelligence, smarts, or education?
White men believe women should be helped into carriages because they thought women were....
What is weak?
When ST asks the audience, "And Ain't I a Woman?"
What is a rhetorical question/device?
Someone who opposes slavery
Who is an abolitionist?
The speaker and author of "Ain't I a Woman"?
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Who is that "little man in black"?
Who is a priest?
Social Hierarchy in 1851:
1. Most Rights (1 group)
2. Least Rights (2 groups)
What is
1. White educated men
2. Slaves and black women
Sojourner Truth repeats "Ain't I a Woman?" after each reasoning to emphasize a point.
What is repetition?
After white men, which group got the right to vote?
Who are black free men?
Where is the speech set? Bonus +100 for the exact year.
What is Seneca Falls Convention in 1851?
The "negroes of the south" and "the women of the north" are
Who are slaves and suffragists?
The reason white men will be in a fix
What is their power will be threatened?
If my cup won't hold but a pint(half of a quart), and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Sojourner Truth shared her speech after the civil war. (true/false)
What is False?
Which of the following text structures best represents HOW Sojourner Truth organized her speech?
A. Classify (grouping)
B. Flow Map (chronological)
C. Cause and Effect
What is classify?
in a fix
What is upset, embarrassed, angry?
Two reasons why Sojourner Truth has never been helped into carriages.
What is:
1. She is physically capable on her own
2. White men consider her not to be a woman, because she was a slave, she was property
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone,
What is an allusion?
Who are suffragists?
Why is Sojourner Truth an influential figure to the Seneca Falls Convention?
What is she is speaking from experience and speaking out for slaves and women?
An example of _____________ is helping women into carriages, lifting over ditches, and giving them the best seat everywhere
chivalry
SJ's main arguments support women's rights.... but this paragraph BOTH supported abolitionism AND suffragists MOST?
What is paragraph #5?
Sojourner Truth also employs __________ to highlight the strength and resilience of women. She states, "I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And ain't I a woman?" In this instance, she contrasts the physically demanding labor she has performed against traditional, fragile image of women, emphasizing her strength.
What is juxtaposition?
Abraham Lincoln's motion to free the slaves
What is emancipation proclomation?