Analyze Argument in "Ain't I a Woman?"

Match the following WORDS with their DEFINITIONS!

• How you support your claim

• ARGUMENT

• Your position or side in a debate

• REASONING

• Process of thinking in a logical way

• EVIDENCE

• Facts, Examples, Quotes

• CLAIM

Choose TWO reasons that Sojourner Truth gave to support her claim.

• Women can do as much as men.

• Women deserve special treatment.

• Women need help because due to being less intelligent.

• Rights should be equal and fair, regardless of intelligence.

A man in Truth’s audience reasoned that women didn’t deserve as many rights as men because Eve, the first woman, cursed everyone with her mistake. What was Truth's counter-claim?

• People shouldn't compare themselves to Jesus.

• Jesus would support women's rights.

• If women have the power to destroy, women can fix things, too.

What is Truth's purpose in writing this speech?

• arguing for equal rights for men and women

• to complain about mistreatment of women

• to list what she has been through 

• to fight slavery

As mentioned in the text, "Intellect. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights?

This quote is an example of what Rhetorical Device?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos