Tuesday, March 3, 2015

English Standard

 1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts,
using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

f. Use specific rhetorical devices to support assertions (e.g., appeal to logic
through reasoning; appeal to emotion or ethical belief; relate a personal
anecdote, case study, or analogy). CA




   Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth a women with a speech that talks about what life was as a black women. A speech which contains a message to those women who were thought to be inferior than men. Sojourner Truth uses exemplification to clarify the main points why women should have the same rights as men. She uses ethos, pathos, and logos to make her audience feel, and believe how and what she was going through, and she uses illustration to convey the message of equal rights.


Truth uses exemplification to sate that she does labor work just as a man would. How does that make Truth any different. Truth says, " Aren't I a women", showing the perseverance and power of what a women could achieve. Truth says a man should help a women into carriages, and lifted over ditches, but no one ever treated her that way. How is she suppose to go through that living with no respect and treated with no rights. Truth is a strong and smart women who knows where she stands.


Truth uses pathos, ethos, and logos to make her audience capture the emotion of what she went through. That includes the hard labor, and the abuse of lashes. Even the worst she talks about the thirteen children she once had, but she lost them all because they were sold off into slavery. She uses logos to point out that Christ came from a women and God. A women plays an important role, and she should have those rights. Ethos is used to show how yet again she was treated, being an African American, she has experienced racism of not being helped into carriages, as a women should be treated.

The illustration Truth uses is to make women realize that they are not some fragile thing that men think they are. They are strong women who can do anything they set their mind to, they are brave independent women. By this speech Truth wants the audience especially women to know they should have equal rights.

In conclusion, after all Truth has been through, she shows that she is a modest person, with an important message to strong women. She conveys this message through, exemplification, ethos, pathos, logos, and illustration.

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