Speaking at a suffrage convention‚ social worker Florence Kelley calls upon her audience to combine child labor and women’s suffrage issues in order to make advances in both areas. Basing her argument on factual evidence‚ Kelley further uses emotional and ethical appeal‚ supported by strong diction and subtle syntax structures t convey the necessity of reform to her audience. Florence Kelley provides a great point with a weak argument in her speech. Her writing is almost mere state by state
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motivate Americans in the fight for freedom from Britain. In one of several editions of his pamphlets titled The Crisis‚ Paine used several propaganda and persuasion techniques including over generalization‚ either/or fallacy‚ bandwagon appeal‚ parallelism‚ analogy‚ repetition‚ anecdote‚ and loaded language. During the winter of 1776‚ American soldiers fighting in the Revolutionary War under the command of George Washington had little food‚ insufficient shelter‚ and many were deserting. The reading
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Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Virginia Convention * Henry warns patriots to lower their demands of the British‚ or else prepare themselves for a fight. * The direction of listeners are specifically members of the convention. * The speech’s occasion is a meeting/convention. * Henry’s tone is pleading. Paragraph 1 1.) Henry’s opening lines allow him to suggest the importance of patriotism as he say “no man thinks more highly than I do of patriotism.” With caution not to spike anybody with
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techniques to make this book a creative and an excellent short story to sit back‚ relax and indulge yourself in. Throughout this book‚ Carr uses many different techniques in language and writing. These techniques are foreshadowing‚ hyperbole‚ parallelism‚ repetition‚ and metaphoric language. Foreshadowing is when the author (Carr) makes it clear on what is about to happen further on in the narrative. In this case‚ Carr makes it clear that there is a great devastation about to happen in this small
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psalms as prayers is also seen within the text‚ for example in the conclusion to Psalm 72‚ "The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended." They each have a poetic character with frequent use of parallelism. Biblical Poetry found in Psalms uses parallelism as their primary poetic device. Synonymous parallelism involves two lines expressing the same idea but in two different terms‚ as by using different images or symbols1: The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the
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Faulty Idioms People don’t worry overtheir futures; they worry about their futures. One thing is not different thananother thing; one thing is different fromanother thing. Connor does not excel withlacrosse; he excels in lacrosse. After waiting on line‚ visitors do not walk in the museum‚ they walk into the museum. Jenna has a sweet tooth; she doesn’t have a preoccupation ondark chocolate‚ she has a preoccupation withdark chocolate. You might think that beingraised in an English-speaking home
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One of the most famous documents in American writing is the 1963 letter written by Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. from his jail cell in Birmingham. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was written in response to eight clergymen who had condemned his recent anti-segregation protests calling them “unwise and untimely” (1). Shortly before this time‚ slavery and segregation had been abolished. However‚ these laws were not enforced; African Americans were not not treated as equals‚ and nothing was being
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Justice for All- “I have a dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. On August 28th‚ 1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. gave the infamous “ I have a dream” speech‚ a speech that became a pivotal moment in the history of Civil Rights. King’s address took place during the march on Washington rally‚ where 250‚000 civil rights activists had gathered to join the peaceful protest. Martin Luther King Jr.’s purpose is to unite and inspire those fighting for justice‚ through the use of repetition devices‚ syntax devices
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the dark‚ never to see the light again‚ or you can fight like we‚ as humans do‚ and make your own light. We fight‚ we fall‚ but we rise again and again to fight battles we will never win. And that is‚ arguably‚ the bravest thing anyone can do. (Parallelism) Sometimes‚
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In the narrative “The Chase‚” Annie Dillard describes an exciting encounter that brought her great delight in which she will hardly experience again. She uses a series of figurative languages and selection of details to incorporate her tone into the story and portray the passions of but not limited to children. The story starts off with descriptions of the game football and proceeds to her encounter with a stranger while playing with her friends. As a result of throwing snowballs at his car window
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