Rhetorical Analysis: Founding US Documents

Which of the following rhetorical elements is used in the following quote from The Declaration of Independence?

"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

• repetition

• logos

• denotation

• allusion

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of the following rhetorical elements is used in the underlined portions in the following quote from The Declaration of Independence?

"He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people."

• ethos

• connotation

• allusion

• figurative language

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Identify a use of repetition in the following quote from The Declaration of Independence. Then, explain its purpose/use.

"Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of the following BEST describes the word choice used in reference to the King of Britain or England?

• pleasant

• hopeful

• insightful

• disgust

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Why does the tone shift in The Declaration of Independence?

• There is a change of author.

• There is a change of topic/subject.

• There is a change of opinion.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of the following rhetorical elements is demonstrated n the following sentence from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention?

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"

• figurative language

• logos

• ethos

• rhetorical question

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of the following rhetorical elements in demonstrated in Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention?

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts."

• rhetorical question

• logos

• figurative language

• symbol

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of the following rhetorical elements is demonstrated in the following quote from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention?

"Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss."

• anecdote

• allusion

• ethos

• purpose

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Explain the allusion in the following quote from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention?

"Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss."

Which tone describes Douglass' tone in the following excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

"This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, lowering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!"

• humorous

• accusatory

• playful

• subdued

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9