On Women’s Right to Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony

• Persuasive Techniques: Repetition Rhetorical Questions

• Valid or Faulty Support? Opinion Generalization Over

Generalization Bias

Opinion

• May be supported by factual evidence, but cannot be proved

• Best Worst I think I believe therefore so because however always anything nothing never no one anyone everyone

Generalization

• Opinion based on facts, but not always true

therefore so because ipso facto

Overgeneralization

• An opinion too extreme to be supported by facts

• Always never anything everything nothing nobody only everyone anybody everybody

Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in an election

• Audience: local citizens and friends “Friends and Fellow Citizens”• Topic: Women’s Suffrage

• Position: Pro Women are citizens and have the legal right to vote

Motivation

• Suffrage means the right to vote• Women are asking for a say in who governs us

Discrimination against women is illegal because women are persons and therefore citizens.

• She appeals to logic and authority when she cites Webster, Worcster and Bouvier ( all

dictionaries) and their definition of person.

“Any citizen can vote and hold office.”

• She uses a rhetorical question “Are women persons?”

Appeal to Authority- The Preamble to the Constitution

• The Union was formed by all people• Preamble supports her position with

facts

Women are people

Persuasive Devices

• Repetition- oligarchy- small group ruling the majority- white men

• Rhetorical Question- “Are women persons?”

• Connotation- Downright mockery

• What they stand to lose -harmonious homes as this causes dissension in families.

• She compares the plight of women to the plight of African-Americans

Reading: Use Clue Words to Distinguish Fact From Opinion

• 1. Women are persons.• 2. Look up citizen in the dictionaries

mentioned.• 3. Mockery is a word that states how the

author feels about the situation.• 4. Every is a word that signals an

extreme statement.

Literary Analysis: Persuasive Techniques

• 1. A. The repetition of the word half followed by whole reminds readers of the unequal rights of women and men in America.

• B. Yes, because it emphasizes the difference

• 2. Yes, women are persons.• Yes, because I think women are persons, so• it seems unfair to deny them the vote.

• 3. hateful, aristocracy, oligarchy• It makes you think less of them.

Vocabulary

• 1. True A will ensures that descendents receive the intended gifts.

• 2. False The trip probably would not be enjoyable because there would be a lot of arguing.

• 3. False America’s founders promoted democracy, in which citizens vote on their own laws.

• B. 1. C 2. A 3. B