Today, we are going to finish reading, "The Ballot or the Bullet". We will talk about hooks, conclusions, and dialectical journals. On Monday, we will be to rehearse your orations, so you homework for this weekend: 1) Read chapter 5 of Malcolm X. 2) Make sure your oration is done. 3) Put your oration on notecards. 4) Finish the questions below.
Your assignment for the "Ballot or the Bullet" is as follows:
1) List at least one example of the following: Malcolm's use of ethos, logos, pathos.
2) What is the purpose of the speech? How does Malcolm obtain that purpose?
3) Who is his audience? How do you know this?
4) List at least one example of the following types of proof:
a) analogy/narration to back up his main idea
b) statistics
c) facts
d) expert witnesses
5) Does he have refutation of the opposing side? If so, what is it?
6) List so structural devices and discuss their effect:
parallelism
short sentences
long sentences (types of long sentences)
7) What other things does Malcolm X use for effect?
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