1. “The Crisis”—Number 1 Thomas Paine

2. What would inspire you to fight for your country?

3. 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

4. Purpose His main purpose was to inspire Americans into action.  To Teach  To Inform  To Persuade  To Entertain

5. 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.

6. How is Parallelism used to persuade? Explain your answer, OR ask me a question to help clarify.

7. 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.

8. In your new group Share and explain your responses. Add new ideas about purpose and explanations.

9. Rhetoric DeviceExample from textPurpose Repetition Restatement Parallelism

10. Diction Word choice! Purpose?

11. Charged Word Words that arouse intense emotion and connotative concrete images.

12. Charged Words WordAssociations Liberty Justice Honor Barbarous

13. Aphorism Brief pointed statement that reveals a wisdom of some kind Ideas are like children; there are none so wonderful as your own.

14. Aphorisms AphorismMeaningPurpose The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph Through the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessings will reach you all.

15. How do charged words and aphorisms help persuade audiences?