1.10 SpringBoard English II

Read the excerpt from Kofi Annan's "Nobel Lecture." Which rhetorical device does Annan use to support his claim?

"But to be born a girl in today’s Afghanistan is to begin life centuries away from the prosperity that one small part of humanity has achieved. It is to live under conditions that many of us in this hall would consider inhuman."

• parallelism

• emotional appeal

• allusions

• contrast

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Read the excerpt from Kofi Annan's "Nobel Lecture."

"Today's real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated."

What is the effect of the rhetorical device that Annan uses in this excerpt?

• Parallel structure emphasizes the stark differences between the two groups he speaks about.

• Parallel structure highlights the idea that national borders are becoming less important than they were.

• Repetition emphasizes the responsibility that world leaders have to address the growing division between the two groups.

  Repetition emphasizes the responsibility that world leaders have to address the growing division between the two groups.

• Repetition highlights the conflicts that exist as a result of the growing divisions between people.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Read the excerpt from Hope, Despair, and Memory by Elie Wiesel.

"After the war we reassured ourselves that it would be enough to relate a single night in Treblinka, to tell of her cruelty, the senselessness of murder, and the outrage born of indifference: it would be enough to find the right word and the propitious moment to say it, to shake humanity out of its indifference and keep the torturer from torturing ever again. We thought it would be enough to read the world a poem written by a child in the Theresienstadt ghetto to ensure that no child anywhere would ever again have to endure hunger or fear. It would be enough to describe a death-camp “Selection,” to prevent the human right to dignity from ever being violated again."

What is the effect of Wiesel's repetition of the phrase "we thought it would be enough"?

• It underscores the idea that despite survivors telling their stories, human rights violations around the world continue.

• In underscores the idea that survivors will never stop telling the stories of the horrors they endured during the Holocaust.

• It emphasizes that survivors should continue to recount their experiences so future generations can understand the human rights violations that occurred.

• It illustrates that it was difficult for survivors to convince others to believe them about their experiences during the Holocaust.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3