"Declaration of Sentiments..." by E.C. Stanton Flashcards
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Stanton, woman, women’s rights activist
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step 2
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the first official Women’s Rights meeting at Seneca Falls
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step 3
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U.S. Lawmakers, people against women having equal rights with men
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to argue that women deserve equal rights with men
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step 5
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parody, hyperbole, eloquent diction, cataloging
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step 6
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indignant, well-informed
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tone
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- “disfranchisement” “degradation” “deprived” “insist”
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purpose
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- “no voice” “withheld from her rights” “ignorant and degraded men”
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speaker
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- “the declaration of sentiments and resolutions,” written by elizabeth cady stanton
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style
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- “that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
- “teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known”
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audience
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- “to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world”
- “we shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the state and national legislatures”
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parallel structure
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- “he has never” “he has compelled” “he has withheld”
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tone
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- “injuries” “usurpations” “absolute tyranny”
- “monopolized” “permitted” “scanty remuneration”
- “exclusion” “exclude”
- “deprived” “oppressed” “civilly dead” “obedience” “chastisement”
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syntax
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- “woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government, which”
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listing
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- “aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived” “misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule”
