Atticus’ Closing Argument – Flashcards
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Simile
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This case is as simple as black and white.
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Logos
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The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place.
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Repeitition
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Tom Robinson, guilty, pity
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Pathos
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She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance.
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Logos
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...she has merely broken a time honored code of our society
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Pathos
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She did something that every child has done--she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her.
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Questioning
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What did she do? What did her father do?
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Juxtaposition
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Not an old Uncle, but a strong, young Negro man.
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Idiom
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No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.
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Logos
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....there's circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by someone who led most exclusively with his left.
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Juxtaposition
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Atticus reminds the jury that Bob is left handed and Tom is right handed (left hand useless).
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Pathos
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...Tom Robinson now sits before you, having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses--his right hand.
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Parallelism
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And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro...
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Diction
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...who had the unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman...
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Parallelism
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...that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women...
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Name calling
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... an assumption that one associates with minds of their caliber.
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Simile
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...we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin...
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Pathos
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There's not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.
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Allusion
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Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal...
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Parallelism
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...some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others--some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men.
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Allusion
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...there is one institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man equal of Einstein...
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Allusion
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... in our courts all men are created equal
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Ethos
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system--that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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Pathos
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In the name of God, do your duty.
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