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25 Cards in this Set
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Reason colonists started the Revolution.
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Britain started taxing.
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Author of the Declaration of Independence.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Benjamin Franklin's thoughts on the Constitution.
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"We could do no better."
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What was unique about Ben Franklin's Autobiography?
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It was written as a letter to his son and not meant to be published.
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Rhetorical devices.
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repetition, restatement, parallelism, antithesis, and rhetorical questions
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Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet.
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Common Sense
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Define parallelism.
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repeating a grammatical structure
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Patrick Henry's famous saying.
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"...give me liberty or give me death!"
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Identitify. "...we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!"
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repetition
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Define antithesis.
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using strongly contrasting words, images, or ideas.
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Define aphorism.
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a short saying with a message
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Who said, "These are the times that try men's souls?"
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Thomas Paine
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Patrick Henry's position on Britain.
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We should go to war.
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What didn't work according to Paine?
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talking and negotiating
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Explain, "Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."
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Don't keep bad things in your mind forever, but remember the good.
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Define repetition.
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repeating an idea using the same words
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Henry brings this up throughout his speech.
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slavery
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Popular broadside ballad.
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"The Dying Redcoat"
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Who was Phillis Wheatley?
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African American poet
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Authors of The Federalist.
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John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton
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Alexander Hamilton's comment on the Constitution.
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a "weak and worthless fabric"
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Define rhetorical questions.
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questions the author or speaker asks that have obvious answers
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Define restatement.
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expressing the same idea using different words
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The different types of speeches.
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political speeches, addresses, and sermons
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Define the different persuasive techniques.
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logos- logical appeal
ethos- ethical appeal pathos- emotional appeal |
