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English 11

For Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Va. Convention”, fill out the following boxes with examples of one logical appeal, one emotional appeal, and one ethical appeal.

Logical Appeals (Logos)

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Emotional Appeals (Pathos)

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Ethical Appeals (Ethos)

Explanation

/ Sets of ASSUMPTIONS that provide rational arguments to support a writer’s CLAIMS / Statements based on specific examples of SUFFERING or potential THREATS / Statements of shared moral VALUES that appeal to the audience’s sense of right, justice, & VIRTUE

Examples

Elevated Language

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Rhetorical Questions

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Restatement

Explanation

/ FORMALwords & phrases that add a SERIOUS tone / Questions asked that aren’t meant to be ANSWERED. To show their arguments make answers OBVIOUS. / Expresses the SAME ideas using DIFFERENT words

Examples

  1. What issue does Patrick Henry’s speech address? What does he want his audience to think or do?
  1. Who is Henry’s audience for this speech?

Parallelism/Parallel Structure

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Exclamation

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Allusion

Explanation

/ The repetition of similar or the same grammatical structure. (Ex: What do we want of these men? What do we want of ourselves?) / An emotional statement, often ending in an exclamation mark! Usually drives home some element of pathos. / A reference to something that the author/speaker expects the reader/listener to know from history, classic literature or myth, art, or the Bible

Examples

  1. In what way does Henry’s speech take the opposing position into account?
  1. What types of people living in Virginia at the time of Henry’s speech might have reacted negatively to his words?
  1. What are the speaker’s political assumptions? What is Henry’s belief about human nature—give an example from the text that supports your opinion.
  1. What are the speaker’s political assumptions? What is Henry’s guiding belief about the role that government should play in the lives of the people—give an example from the text that supports your group’s opinion.
  1. What is Henry’s “call to action” at the end of the speech? What action does he want the Virginia Convention to take?

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