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The CrisisNumber 1

• Thomas Paine

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What would inspire you to fight for your country?
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Background

• Paine met Ben Franklin in Londonthey 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 troopswhat war?
• Argued revolution is inevitable

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Purpose

• His main purpose was to inspire Americans into
  action.
• To Teach
• To Inform
• To Persuade
• To Entertain

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What would inspire you to fight for your country?

• Paines 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.

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How is Parallelism used to persuade?

• Explain your answer, OR ask me a question to help
  clarify.

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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.

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In your new group

• Share and explain your responses. Add new ideas
  about purpose and explanations.

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Rhetoric Device Example from text Purpose
Repetition
Restatement
Parallelism
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Diction

• Word choice!
• Purpose?

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Charged Word

• Words that arouse intense emotion and connotative
  concrete images.

Liberty
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Charged Words
Word Associations
Liberty
Justice
Honor
Barbarous
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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?
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Aphorisms
Aphorism Meaning Purpose
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.
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How do charged words and aphorisms help persuade
audiences?