Rhetoric
Someone who gives an oration
What is an orator?
Aristotle proposed three of these strategies in rhetoric.
What is a rhetorical appeal (ethos, logos, pathos)?
Technique in:
"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
What is Repetition?
What is anaphora?
Technique in "the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination."
What is metaphor?
Used "deeds, not words" to fight for the women's right to vote
What is a suffragette?
The art of persuasion.
What is rhetoric?
The inventors or rhetoric appeal
What is classical Greeks?
What is Aristotle?
A technique that poses a question
What is a Rhetorical Question?
What is Puzzle and Solution?
The person who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The main details that support an argument.
What is a point, explanation, reason or premise?
An appeal to the virtue and trustworthiness of a speaker.
What is ethos?
What is contrast?
What is a contradiction?
Technique in "This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice"
What is simile?
What is metaphor?
Two key figures of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Who is
Emmeline Pankhurt
Christabel Panhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst
Teresa Billington-Grief
Emily Davison
Charlotte Despard
A type of text that intends to persuade the audience to adopt a position.
What is a persuasive text?
An appeal to logic.
What is logos?
Technique in:
"We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."
What is opposite? What is inclusive language?
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at this place and day.
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963
Technique in
"I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain - it seems strange it should have to be explained - what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women."
What is metaphor? What is imagery of warfare?
A type of text that explores an idea. Unlike a persuasive text, it does not mean to persuade the audience to adopt a position.
What is a discursive text?
An appeal to emotions
What is pathos?
Example: "Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last."
What is repetition? What is emotive language?
Technique in:
"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."
What is allusion?
Technique in "Suppose the men of Hartford had a grievance, and they laid that grievance before their legislature, and the legislature obstinately refused to listen to them, or to remove their grievance, what would be the proper and the constitutional and the practical way of getting their grievance removed?"
What is an analogy?