Rhetorical devices
The rhetorical device used in the title of Malcolm X's speech The Ballot or the Bullet (repetition of the first letter of adjecent or closely connected words)
What is an alliteration?
These are words (nouns) we may use to describe people who came to the west (name at last two)
What are 'pioneers, settlers, immigrants, frontier people, explorers'...
This is what we do when we analyze a text focusing on the protagonist (we find places in text that describe the protagonist, and we come up with adjectives to describe them, and we look at their motives and relations)
What is 'characterization'?
This is said about the US: "America is the land of..."
(bonus +400 points with correct answer)
What is "opportunity"?
eller "the free/freedom"?
This is the name of the protagonist of the film Winter's Bone
What/who is Ree Dolly?
This is the rhetorical device used in MLK's speech here: "One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity"
or in Strange Fruit: 'Strange fruit hanging from the poplar tree'
What is a metaphor?
This is the (fiction) short story we read about a family travelling West.
(double point if you can name the author. If you get the author wrong this does not give minus points)
What is Spoil the Child?
(written by Howard Fast, 1938)
These are three ways to 'appeal' to an audience when e.g. giving a speech (modes of appeal)
What are 'ethos, logos, and pathos'?
This is/was the motivation to immigrate to the US, that promises that you may achieve all that you want as long as you work hard.
What is 'the American dream'?
This is the title of J.D. Vance's memoirs about his life in the Ozarks
(double points with correct answer)
What is Hillbilly Elegy?
This is the rhetorical device used by MLK in his speech here:
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia... I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi ... I have a dream that my four little children'
What is an anaphora'?
This law stated that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of government land.
(Double point if you can name the year the law was passed)
What is The Homestead Act?
(1862)
This word refers to the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs.
What is the setting?
This is a 'value' that is stressed in The Declaration of independence and further emphasized in the first 10 amendments.
what is 'to have rights'?
This is the movement that Martin Luther King was one of the leaders of, that worked for equal rights for all Americans
What is 'the Civil Rights Movement'?
This is the type of rhetorical device that Billy Holliday uses when she sings about how the 'strange fruit hangin' in the poplar trees' look like: "The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth"
or MLK: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.”
What is 'personification'?
This is what Americans thought they had the moral obligation to bring to the 'savage' and to the New world in the West.
what is 'civilization'?
These are models we use to analyze the plot of a story (e.g. the film Winter's Bone). One of them includes 'call to adventure' the other 'point of no return'
(double points with two correct answers)
What is The Hero's Journey? and/or The Hollywood model
This is the 'release date' for The Declaration of Independence (date and year)
What is 'July 4th, 1776'?
This is the terrible thing that was done to (mainly) African Americans up until the 1960's, which is what the song Strange Fruit is about
What are 'lynchings'?
This is the rhetorical devices used by MLK in his I have a Dream speech here:
"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation"
(double points with correct answer)
What is an allusion?
This is the painting which allegorizes the concept of manifest destiny. The painting includes Columbia and various groups of people living on the frontier.
(double point if you can name the artist who painted it. You do not lose any points if you get the name wrong)
What is 'American Progress'?
(painted by John Gast, 1872)
These are language/linguistic features/techniques that we look for when we analyze texts
What are 'rhetorical devices'? (or literary devices)
This is the ending of this phrase from The Declaration of Independence:
"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..."
What is "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
This is what was done in American society, based on 'Jim Crow laws', that basically restrained African Americans from having the same rights as White Americans.
What is 'segregation'?