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Applied practice on quoted passages: which appeal is doing the work here, whose authority is borrowed, and what the audience is assumed to believe.
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Douglass, 1857: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." Which appeal carries the claim?
Paine, 1776: "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." Which appeal leads?
Chief Joseph, 1877: "I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." Which appeal carries the close?
Jacobs, 1861: "Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction." Which appeal is doing the work?
Jefferson, 1801: "We are all republicans: we are all federalists." Which appeal does the sentence chiefly build?
Bacon, 1625: "Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability." Which appeal carries the statement?
Wollstonecraft, 1792: "I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves." Which appeal does the distinction serve?
Darwin, 1859: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one." Which appeal joins the science?
Declaration, 1776: "the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them." Whose authority is invoked?
Seneca Falls, 1848: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." Whose authority is borrowed?
Lincoln, 1865: "as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.'" Whose authority is borrowed?
Harlan, 1896: "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." Whose authority is central?
Jefferson, 1786: "Almighty God hath created the mind free." Whose authority supports the claim?
Lincoln, 1863: "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom." Whose authority is invoked?
Henry, 1775: "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience." What does he assume?
Douglass, 1852: "Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty?" What does he assume his audience already believes?
Declaration, 1776: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes." What belief is assumed?
Washington, 1796: "virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government." What does the passage assume?
Lincoln, 1861: "Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy." What audience belief does this rely on?
Jefferson, 1801: "But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle." What does he assume?
Lincoln, 1865: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right." How do two appeals work together?
Paine, 1776: "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country." How do two appeals share the line?
Douglass, 1852: "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." How do two appeals work together?
Declaration, 1776: "we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." How do two appeals operate?
Seneca Falls, 1848: "Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them." How do appeals share the sentence?
Swift's proposer: "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London." Which appeal does the surface imitate?
Franklin, 1748: "Remember, that time is money." Which appeal does the surface imitate?
Franklin, 1773: "An ancient sage valued himself upon this, that though he could not fiddle, he knew how to make a great city of a little one." Which appeal does the surface imitate?
Twain, 1882: "Always obey your parents, when they are present." Which appeal does the surface imitate?
Bierce, 1911: "CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." Which appeal does the surface imitate?
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