Rhet. Devices – Patrick Henry Speech – Flashcards
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Allusion
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"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts"
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Analogy
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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience."
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Antithesis
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"There is no retreat but in submission and slavery."
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Ethos (Ethical Appeal)
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APPEAL: "Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power."
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Logos (Logical Appeal)
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APPEAL: " What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sire, deceive ourselves longer. Sire we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on."
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Pathos (Emotional Appeal)
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APPEAL: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"
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Metaphor
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"They [navies and armies] are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging."
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Parallelism
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"Give me liberty or give me death!"
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Rhetorical Question
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"But when shall we be stronger? Shall it be the next week, or the next year? "
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Call to Action
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"Give me liberty or give me death!"
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Tricolon
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"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
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Anaphora
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"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves..." (this is also amplification)
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Amplification
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"Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have bee disregarded..." (this is also a tricolon and parallelism)
