English - "Speech in the Virginia Convention" and Rhetoric Assessment

Analyze the quote: "Ask yourselves how the gracious reception of our petition, comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land? Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?"

They are getting ready for war.

What is an example of Rhetorical Question?

"Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?"

What is an example of Parallelism?

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."

What is an example of Repetition?

"Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace, but there is no peace."

What is an example of Antithesis?

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

What is an example of Pathos?

"Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer."

What is an example of a Charged Word/Loaded Word?

"Noble struggle"

What is an example of Ethos?

"Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature has placed in our power."

What is an example of Exclamation?

"There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!"

What is an example of Logos?

"We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament."

What is an example of Restatement?

"We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament."

What is an example of Anaphora?

"We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves.."

Paraphrase (n.)

A restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording

Pathos

Emotional connection (appeal)

Restatement

Expressing the same ideas using different words

Analyze the quote: "There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us."

God supports us and will provide what we need for our fight.

Analyze the quote: "Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!"

Great Britain is ready to make us slaves.

Exclamation

Highly emotional (sentences that end with "!")

Parallelism

Ideas and phrases that are similar to each other (same structure)

Logos

Logical, reasoning, and evidence

Analyze the quote: "I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?"

There is only one reason Great Britain would put navies and armies in our area; they're preparing for war with us.

Antithesis

Opposition or using contrasting words

Know the purpose of Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention." What does Henry want?

Patrick Henry wants to go to war with Great Britain.

Rhetorical Question

Questions asked by the speaker that the audience internalizes but does not answer aloud

Repetition/Anaphora

Repeating the same exact word

Petition (v.)

To beg or request something

Supplicate (v.)

To pray humbly to; ask or petition humbly

Remonstrate (v.)

To present reasons in complaint; plead in protest

Incite (v.)

To stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action

Ethos

Uses the identity of speaker and audiences' moral values

Analyze the quote: "Our petitions have been slighted; or remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne, in vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation."

We cannot keep hoping for peace with Great Britain when they've rejected every attempt at peaceful resolution.

Analyze the quote: "Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our back, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us, hand and foot?"

We cannot resist by lying down and cling to hope while they make us subservient.

Analyze the quote: "Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable..."

We have examined the issue from every angle. There is no other way to look at it.

Analyze the quote: "Sir, we have done every thing that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned--we have remonstrated--we have supplicated--we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament."

We have exhausted every peaceful option for dealing with Great Britain.

Analyze the quote: "Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back out love?"

We haven't done anything to indicate that we can only be dealt with by force.

Analyze the quote: "If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if would mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight!--I repeat it, sir, we must fight!"

We promised we wouldn't stop our struggle for freedom until we got it. If we want freedom, must fight for it.