Analysis of Rhetoric by Mrs. Manz https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3 Post and then read through your classmates annotations. You may use any examples for your personal response. en-us 2017-10-27 14:49:12 UTC 2024-08-11 18:00:01 UTC hello@padlet.com cmanz https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201228145 2017-10-27 14:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201228145 Numero Uno (Jake F, Ale C, Drew N, Leah B, Colin F) https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201292757 "You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron!"
This is antithesis. His use of antithesis shows the awful contrast between being free and being a slave. This would be less effective if it was removed because it shows the contrast quickly and in detail.
"I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery."
This is a metaphor. It compares the torture of slavery with hell which is supposedly the ultimate torture. The use of hell further reinforces of how bad slavery is and why he wants to leave.
 "I will run away. I will not stand it. Get caught, or get clear, I'll try it. I had as well die with ague as the fever. I have only one life to lose. I had as well be killed running as die standing."
This is anaphora. It shows that he and he alone is gonna run away no matter how bad the consequences are. it also explains how bad slavery is by showing that he's isolated and lonely by his overuse of "I."

 
]]> 2017-10-27 17:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201292757 Number 9 (Eva R, Lola C, James S, and Lauren K) https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201293448 "For all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly..."
The first statement is ethos. It shows Douglas's credibility, as he has encountered many slave holders in his life. He then connects the words he uses to describe religious slaveholders. Furthermore, alliteration is used in the phrase, "cruel and cowardly," bringing attention to these words in particular. These devices allow the reader to trust Douglas and better understand the attributes of a religious slave holder. If he hadn't used this device his statements would be less trustworthy. He also wouldn't have had any general evidence to support his statement. Finally, including many examples of the slave masters' personality traits helps to emphasize how terrible they really were.

"...which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection."
This is an example of parallelism and Douglass uses it to emphasize the horrendous crimes (in the 'rules' of religion) the slaveholders would commit in punishing the slaves. “Darkest” implies the slaveholders have a dark soul, causing the dark deeds. “Foulest” suggests the wickedness of the deeds towards the slaves. “Grossest” indicates the evidence of the deeds the slaveholders had done to the slaves, denoting the slaveholders didn’t care how much the slaves were hurting, because their crimes were justified by religion. Finally, "infernal"—being the strongest word gives it the strongest meaning—signifies the horrid life the slaves have to live because most slaveholders would have gone out of their way to find something to punish the slave for, especially if the slave master previously had something against the slave.

“…the most horrid crimes,—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—and a dark shelter…”
This emphasizes that the slaveholders will do deeds that are not acceptable for people to do, religion wise. The slave masters think that since the slaves are African Americans, the slaves are lower than they are, so they don't have to follow the rules of religion, but when the slaves did something wrong, they were disciplined because of religion. This would make the slave masters hypocrites. It also uses parallelism to emphasize how awful but still common it was to use religion to sanctify bad deeds.]]> 2017-10-27 17:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201293448 Number 5 (Maggie C, Brett P, Christian D, Diana M) Be sure to explain the effect of each example https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201295507 "...The meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others."
This is an example of parallelism because it is emphasizing how horrible Douglass' master is.
"...darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds..."
This is an example of parallelism because it uses a bunch of conjunctions and creates pathos to the reader.
"Where I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery..."
This is an example of metaphor because "the chains" are being compared to slavery.]]> 2017-10-27 17:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201295507 Passage 3 https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201301077 2017-10-27 17:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201301077 number 8 https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201305839 2017-10-27 17:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cmanz/gfg4u0q7ibb3/wish/201305839