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On Women’s Right to Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
• Persuasive Techniques: Repetition Rhetorical Questions
• Valid or Faulty Support? Opinion Generalization Over
Generalization Bias
Opinion
• May be supported by factual evidence, but cannot be proved
• Best Worst I think I believe therefore so because however always anything nothing never no one anyone everyone
Generalization
• Opinion based on facts, but not always true
therefore so because ipso facto
Overgeneralization
• An opinion too extreme to be supported by facts
• Always never anything everything nothing nobody only everyone anybody everybody
Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in an election
• Audience: local citizens and friends “Friends and Fellow Citizens”• Topic: Women’s Suffrage
• Position: Pro Women are citizens and have the legal right to vote
Motivation
• Suffrage means the right to vote• Women are asking for a say in who governs us
Discrimination against women is illegal because women are persons and therefore citizens.
• She appeals to logic and authority when she cites Webster, Worcster and Bouvier ( all
dictionaries) and their definition of person.
“Any citizen can vote and hold office.”
• She uses a rhetorical question “Are women persons?”
Appeal to Authority- The Preamble to the Constitution
• The Union was formed by all people• Preamble supports her position with
facts
Women are people
Persuasive Devices
• Repetition- oligarchy- small group ruling the majority- white men
• Rhetorical Question- “Are women persons?”
• Connotation- Downright mockery
• What they stand to lose -harmonious homes as this causes dissension in families.
• She compares the plight of women to the plight of African-Americans
Reading: Use Clue Words to Distinguish Fact From Opinion
• 1. Women are persons.• 2. Look up citizen in the dictionaries
mentioned.• 3. Mockery is a word that states how the
author feels about the situation.• 4. Every is a word that signals an
extreme statement.
Literary Analysis: Persuasive Techniques
• 1. A. The repetition of the word half followed by whole reminds readers of the unequal rights of women and men in America.
• B. Yes, because it emphasizes the difference
• 2. Yes, women are persons.• Yes, because I think women are persons, so• it seems unfair to deny them the vote.
• 3. hateful, aristocracy, oligarchy• It makes you think less of them.
Vocabulary
• 1. True A will ensures that descendents receive the intended gifts.
• 2. False The trip probably would not be enjoyable because there would be a lot of arguing.
• 3. False America’s founders promoted democracy, in which citizens vote on their own laws.
• B. 1. C 2. A 3. B