Abigail Adams 2014 - Introduction Flashcards
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style
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- particularly your ever effective mother (descriptive closing)
- nature has not been deceit (personification)
- compares a judicious traveler to a river that increases its stream the further it flows (metaphor)
- “your country” “your parents” “your ever” (parallel structure)
- great necessities call out great virtues (parallel structure)
- a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart (personification)
- blessing of Heaven (biblical allusions)
- war, tyranny, and desolation are the scourges of the Almighty (listing)
- running through rich veins of minerals, improve their qualities as they pass along (extended metaphor)
- faculty of your mind, that you have a parent who has taken so large and active a share in this… (complex sentence structure)
- manly virtue (appeals to masculinity)
- but add justice, fortitude, and every manly virtue which can adorn a good citizen, (listing)
- the tyranny of Catiline, Verres, and Mark Anthony? (rhetorical questions)
- “your incitements” “your mind” “you have” “reposed in him” “calls him” (parallel structure)
2
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task
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- then, in a well-developed essay, analyze the rhetorical strategies Adams uses to advise her son
3
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which part of the task defines what stance warrant should be justifying?
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…strategies Adams uses to advise her son…
4
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occasion
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- words like “abroad” “inviolable” “dictates” “fortitude”
- in the following letter
- traveling abroad with his father, John Adams, a United States diplomat
- words like “occasion” “repent” “averse” “lament” “whilst”
5
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which part of the task defines the rhetorical techniques the Claim should be about?
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…analyze the rhetorical strategies Adams uses…
6
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tone
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- words like “glorious” “generous” “powerful” (uplifting)
- “trust” “honored” “embassy” “calls” (prestigious)
- words like “desolation” “scourges” “depreciated” (catastrophic)
7
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purpose
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- Adams uses to advise her son
8
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SOAPSTone
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- Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Style, Tone
