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The Classical Period
The Classical Writers
The Classical Model
Rhetorical Terms
Miscellaneous
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The Classical Period is known by several names, including the Enlightenment Period, the Revolutionary Period, and another popular name stressing this period's emphasis on rational thought.
What is the Age of Reason?
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This document is probably the best example of Classical Period thinking with it's examples of self-made success, individualism, scientific pursuit, civic duty, and other hallmarks of the time period.
What is The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin?
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It's a catchy way to introduce your argument. Sometimes it's a quote, a startling statistic, an anecdote, or a vivid description.
What is a lead?
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"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament."
What is parallel structure?
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This is the fourth mode of discourse not mentioned in the following: argument/persuasion, exposition, description, and _____.
What is "narration"?
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This driving philosophy of the period stressed "the power of reason to discover truth."
What is "Rationalism"?
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This famous orator probably learned some of his rhetorical strategies while listening to the sermons of traveling preachers as a child. His most famous speech concludes with a series of rhetorical questions and the famous line: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
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This man created the Classical Model after observing how arguments are constructed.
Who is Aristotle?
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"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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..."
What is anaphora?
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This type of argument uses a syllogism to reach valid conclusions.
What is a deductive argument?
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This Classical view on religion allowed Rationalists of the time to arrive at their own truth through scientific observation while still maintaining God's role as "the Great Clockmaker."
What is "Deism"?
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This famous pamphleteer used the anecdotal example of a Tory who wasn't thinking about his child's future to encourage the Revolutionary soldiers to keep fighting.
Who is Thomas Paine?
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Aristotle said that you don't have an argument unless you have some of this.
What is refutation of the other side of the argument?
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"Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss."
What is a Biblical allusion?
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He introduced his famous argument, Crisis Number 1, with the the following opening line: "These are the times that try mens' souls."
Who is Thomas Paine?
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Rationalist thought about relations among people, God, and natural law are the root of this important Revolutionary document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
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The nonfiction writing of the Classical Period focused more on material change than on the more Puritan concept of what?
What is the Afterlife?
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It must be defendable, arguable, responsible, and interesting.
What is a claim?
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This is the most powerful rhetorical device in the following line: "Though I am female and contracted this disease in marriage and enjoy the warm support of my family, I am one with the lonely gay man sheltering a flickering candle from the cold wind of his family’s rejection.”
What is metaphor?
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This is a short, witty statement that sums up a philosophy for living.
What is aphorism?
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After this famous event in 1773, the British government instituted a number of financially crippling taxes and restrictions of commerce, known as the "Intolerable Acts," which led to the American Revolution.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
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Who said it? "While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
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It is a type of claim that asks the audience to do something or not to do something.
What is a policy claim?
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Patrick Henry uses one of the three appeals with the following word choice and by introducing the following metaphor: "This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate."
What is pathos?
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This type of argument uses a style of reasoning based on observing samples from a larger population in order to reach conclusions about the population.
What is an inductive argument?