Speech in the Virginia Convention

Speech to the Second Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry

Complete this lesson along with the Patrick Henry's Speech assignment

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is used in the following quote?

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical question

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

What type of rhetorical device is used in this quote from paragraph 1:

"MR. PRESIDENT: No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism..."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Open Ended

"MR. PRESIDENT: No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism..."

How do you know this line is an example of ETHOS?

Analyzing the Speech:

On your worksheet, write a 1 -2 sentence summary that explains what this paragraph of the speech is about.

Don't forget to label the type of rhetorical device found!

Multiple Choice

What type of rhetorical device is used in this quote from paragraph 2:

"Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?"

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Open Ended

"Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?"

This is an example of ETHOS. How is Patrick Henry making a connection to his audience?

Analyzing the Speech:

On your worksheet, write a 1 -2 sentence summary that explains what this paragraph of the speech is about.

Don't forget to label the type of rhetorical device found!

Multiple Choice

What type of rhetorical device is used in this quote from paragraph 3:

"Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Open Ended

"Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort."

This is an example of PATHOS. Charged words are those that inflict strong emotion and are used to draw in an audience's emotions. List two CHARGED WORDS from this quote that most likely gained the audiences attention?

Analyzing the Speech:

On your worksheet, write a 1 -2 sentence summary that explains what this paragraph of the speech is about.

Don't forget to label the type of rhetorical device found!

Multiple Select

What type of rhetorical device is used in this quote from paragraph 3:

"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. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Open Ended

"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. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne."

What does Patrick Henry want his audience to understand?

Analyzing the Speech:

On your worksheet, write a 1 -2 sentence summary that explains what this paragraph of the speech is about.

Don't forget to label the type of rhetorical device found!

Multiple Choice

What type of rhetorical device is used in this quote from paragraph 3:

"There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

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• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Open Ended

"There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come."

What do you think Patrick Henry choose to use slavery as a metaphor?

Analyzing the Speech:

On your worksheet, write a 1 -2 sentence summary that explains what this paragraph of the speech is about.

Don't forget to label the type of rhetorical device found!

Multiple Choice

What type of rhetorical device is used in this quote from paragraph 3:

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Open Ended

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

What tone (attitude) does Patrick Henry invoke in the last sentence?

Analyzing the Speech:

On your worksheet, write a 1 -2 sentence summary that explains what this paragraph of the speech is about.

Don't forget to label the type of rhetorical device found!

Multiple Choice

What is the best summary of this entire speech?

• Henry wants to go to war with Britain to ensure freedom for the people in the United States.

• Henry would rather die than fight for his own freedom from Britain.

• Henry wants freedom from Britain, but also does not believe war will bring it.

Open Ended

What is being compared in the following metaphor?

"They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging."

Multiple Choice

What does Henry believe will happen to the people of the United States if they do not go to war with Britain?

• They will become slaves to the British throne.

• They will all die at the hands of the British army.

• Nothing will change and life will continue as it was for them.

Multiple Choice

Why does Henry believe British "fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation" have come to America's waters?

• They were bringing new settlers.

• They were there to fight a war with America.

• They were there delivering supplies to British settlements.

Analyzing the Speech:
Don't forget to answer the final question on your assignment.




What was Henry's purpose for the speech? (To inform, to entertain, or to persuade) How do you know?