Rhetoric Study Game
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Emancipation Proclamation
 According to King, what is the “Beacon Light of Hope”?
A bad check
 What is one extended metaphor King uses in his speech?
America has not given African
Americans their rights
 According to King, how has America given African
Americans a “bad check”?
determined
 What is the tone of King’s speech?
Everyone, regardless of color, should
have equal rights.
 What is the main idea of this speech?
To persuade Americans that
everyone is created equal and
should be treated equally
 For what main reason did King give this speech?
They should not hesitate and should
act immediately.
 How does King say African Americans should respond to
the Civil Rights Movement?
Black people
 According to the speech, to whom did the Emancipation
Proclamation give hope?
Hyperbole
 When King states, “I am happy to join with you today in
what will go down in history as the greatest
demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,”
what rhetorical device is he using?
Anaphora
 When King states “We can never be satisfied as long as
the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of
police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our
bodies, heaving with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain
lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of
the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro’s
basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one,”
what literary device is he using at the BEGINNING of the
sentences?
parallelism
 In the same quote above King states, “…cannot gain
lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of
the cities.” What rhetorical device is he using in the
underlined part?
Ethos (“we”)
 When King states, “But we refuse to believe that the bank
of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are
insufficient funds…and so, we’ve come to cash this
check,” to which of the following is he appealing?
Pathos
 When King states, “I have a dream that my four little
children will one day live in a nation where they will not
be judged b the color of their skin but by the content of
their character,” to which of the following is he
appealing?
Logos
 When King states, “When the architects of our republic
wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence, they were signing a
promissory note to which every American was to fall
heir,” to which of the following is he appealing?
Dramatic Irony
 the audience knows something the character
 does not know
parallelism
 parts of a sentence that are equal and
 balanced
anaphora
 the repetition of a word or phrase at the
 beginning of successive lines, or phrases
Rhetoric
 the art of effective speaking or writing
antithesis
 Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced
or parallel construction
logos
 The logic used to support a claim
pathos
 The emotional appeals
ethos
 The source’s credibility, the speaker’s/author’s authority
hyperbole
 Exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetoric effect
Verbal irony
 Expression of something which is contrary to the intended
meaning; the words say one thing but mean another
Situational irony
 When the outcome of actions or events is different than
the desired or expected result
autobiography
 Coming of Age in Mississippi is what type of literary work?
Essie Mae
 Who is the narrator of the work?
During the 1940s and 1950s
 During which time period does this work take place?
They are tenant farmers
 What do Essie Mae’s parents do for a living at the
beginning of the work?
He goes to live with Florence, a
“yellow” woman.
 Why does Daddy leave the family?
They treat her well by helping her with
her homework and feeding her.
 When Essie Mae goes to work for the Johnsons and the
Claibornes, how do they treat her?
society’s emphasis on the slightest
difference of skin color
 What theme does the following quote address?
 “Florence was a mulatto, high yellow with straight black
hair. She was the envy of all the women on the
plantation” (18).
Ed is kind to Essie Mae.
 Why is it easier for Essie Mae to learn from Ed than it is for
her to learn from the schoolteacher?
What makes someone white?
 What is the big question about life that Essie Mae cannot
seem to figure out?
They are white
 When Essie Mae first meets Walter and Sam, what does
she think about them?
Raymond’s mother takes the baby
away from Mama.
 What happens to the first baby (James) that Mama has
with Raymond?
Mama is darker than Miss Pearl, she is
poor, and she had Raymond’s baby
out of wedlock
 Why does Raymond’s mother dislike Mama so much?
A house
 What does Raymond give Mama?
She stands at the doorway and will
not enter the room, does not speak
to Mama, and tells Raymond that she
cannot stay because she must go
cook dinner.
 When Miss Pearl comes to Raymond and Mama’s house
to see the newborn baby, what does she do?
Shy, unsure of herself, a hard worker,
and intelligent
 Essie Mae is which of the following?