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“The Crisis”—Number 1. Thomas Paine. What would inspire you to fight for your country?. Background. Paine met Ben Franklin in London—they became friends and affected American history as a result. How so? Common Sense : published in 1776 Americans must FIGHT for their own independence
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“The Crisis”—Number 1 Thomas Paine
Background • Paine met Ben Franklin in London—they became friends and affected American history as a result. • How so? • Common Sense : published in 1776 • Americans must FIGHT for their own independence • Entitled The Crisis to inspire and increase the morale among troops—what war? • Argued: revolution is inevitable
Purpose • His main purpose was to inspire Americans into action. • To Teach • To Inform • To Persuade • To Entertain
What would inspire you to fight for your country? • Paine’s words aroused passion • Positive • Negative • Good and bad, positive and negative, his rhetoric made a difference. • He used restatement, repetition, parallelism and antithesis throughout his essay which we are going to look at here.
How is Parallelism used to persuade? Explain your answer, OR ask me a question to help clarify.
Rhetoric devices • You have been assigned a group. Your task is to find at least 2 examples of the assigned rhetorical device and record them in your chart. • Then, with your group, decide what the purpos is of each use.
In your new group • Share and explain your responses. Add new ideas about purpose and explanations.
Diction • Word choice! • Purpose?
Charged Word • Words that arouse intense emotion and connotative concrete images. Liberty
Aphorism • Brief pointed statement that reveals a wisdom of some kind Ideas are like children; there are none so wonderful as your own. Meaning? Purpose?
