The American Revolution and Speech Devices “Speech in the Virginia Convention” LO: Understand authors purpose, theme(s), diction, mood, syntax, imagery, audience, structure/organization, persuasive techniques, and other rhetorical techniques. This session will be recorded for learning purposes. Learning purposes include: a lesson review for students who are absent, students who want to review for a test, and students who attend synchronously.
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The American Revolution and Speech Devices
“Speech in the
Virginia Convention”
LO: Understand authors purpose, theme(s), diction, mood, syntax, imagery, audience, structure/organization, persuasive techniques, and other rhetorical techniques.
This session will be recorded for learning purposes.
Learning purposes include: a lesson review for students who
are absent, students who want to review for a test, and
students who attend synchronously.
Housekeeping 101
Name some great speakers or speechesWrite it on the board
John Locke’s Beliefs
• all people are born equal.
• education can free people from the
subjugation of tyranny.
• government has a moral obligation to
guarantee that individuals always retain
sovereignty over their own rights,
including ownership of property that
results from their own labor.
1632-1704
The Colonists
• Americans were content to be left alone
in the colonies.
• They had experience in self-government
and were opposed to a standing army.
• They were especially adamant in their
opposition to taxation without
representation.
Patrick Henry
• Patrick Henry was the most famous orator of the American Revolution.
• He delivered this speech in March 1775 to the Second Virginia Provincial Convention.
• Henry uses various literary devices to create a style of rhetoric which sways his audience to believe that the Revolution must begin.
• He uses the appeals of logos and pathos and establishes ethos
Your Assignment
Parallelism
Pathos
Ethos
Logos
Rhetorical QuestionsRepetition
Restatement
Rhetorical Question• A question to which no
answer is expected
because the answer is
obvious.
• Often used to
emphasize a point or
create an emotional
effect.
“Can we forge against these
enemies a grand and global
alliance, North and South, East
and West, that can assure a
more fruitful life for all
mankind? Will you join in that
historic effort?”
–JFK Inaugural Address
Did you break that lamp?
- Standing next to the broken lamp
Ethos – ethical
• An appeal to the belief that the character is of high moral standing.
• Refers to the trustworthiness of the speaker/writer. The audience can trust the presenter.
• Will the speaker/writer cause you harm?
Pathos – pathetic, sympathy, empathy
• An appeal to the emotions of the
audience.
• Used to alter the mindset of the
audience.
• How does the claim make you feel?
Logos – intellect or logic
• An appeal to the left/logical side of the brain.
• Use of facts and reasoning to persuade the audience.
• What patterns, conventions and modes of reasoning do you see?