Vocabulary
What is defiant?
Mnemonic used for analyzing texts, a familiar acronym beginning with 'something to clean.'
What is SOAPStone?
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
What is Rhetoric?
The prelude to the Autobiography giving a firsthand point of view of Malcolm X's life written by his daughter.
What is the FOREWORD?
He was the first man Malcolm met when he moved to Boston; calls Malcolm "Red".
Who is Shorty?
You talk and act in this type of manner when you're around friends, not adults.
What is informal?
These types of words include phrases such as "got" "really" "a lot" "okay"
What are pedestrian words?
what are the 3 types of rhetoric
what is Logos, Ethos and Pathos
A practice used to separate people of the same community on the basis of complexion.
What is colorism?
Malcolm changed his hair to this style; relaxer.
What is a conk?
You will be seen as a very trustworthy person if you are this all of the time.
What is candid?
appeals to establish the speaker's credibility and authority in the eyes of the audience.
what is ethos?
The persuasive appeal to the audience's logic and rationality using rhetorical modes to address purpose.
What is Logos?
When Malcolm went to live with the Swerlin family, they made negro jokes often in front of Malcolm yet didn't see a problem because they still cared for him. He soon became the token of their family. This is an example of
What is tokenism?
Malcolm was angry when Ella told him about getting him this job.
What is the Townsend Drug Store?
The protestors for the BLM movement felt this after the unjust death of George Floyd.
What is indignant?
a way of wording or expressing things that express an attitude
what is the tone?
how are ethos and logos different
What is Ethos is about establishing your authority to speak on the subject. Logos is a logical argument for your point.
A local hate society that wore black robes who often called Malcolm's father an "uppity negro" also believed to have ended his life.
Who are the Black Legionnaires?
Malcolm mentioned this person who was playing the Roseland the weekend of him working.
Who is Count Basie?
You demonstrate this type of gesture by being the bigger person.
What is conciliatory?
In grammar, the arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship
What is syntax?
how do you define logos
what is a persuasive appeal to your argument
The first job Malcolm had in New York selling sandwiches on this New Haven and Hartford's Train route.
What is the Yankee Clipper?
Born in Blacktown in 1927 named for Lindberg who had just moved to Paris. This style of dance was Malcolm's favorite pastime
What is "Lindy Hopping"?