TASK: With a partner, using your knowledge
of diction, rhetorical devices and appeals, complete a triple entry journal
analyzing the rhetoric of Atticus and the effect on the audience. 5 entries
Atticus Speech
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Rhetorical Device/Appeal
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Is it Effective?
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“In the
name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe in Tom Robinson.”
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Anaphora/
pathos
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Him putting
God and a black man in the same sentence is not effective. These white
southerners regarded God as superior even more than today and associated a
black man the devil.
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“Which I
don’t need to point out to you”
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Litote/Ethos
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This is
ineffective. Sarcasm is humor for the intelligent and he is not understanding
his audience. As a large white uneducated audience, they actually do need the
message he is trying to relay to be pointed out for them keeping in mind that
they are prejudice.
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She is a
victim of cruel poverty and ignorance
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Appeal to
pathos
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Ineffective
because it only succeeds in insulting his audience.
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“Now I am
confident… come to the decision and restore this man to his family.”
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Ineffective
because while trying to appeal to their pathos, he was over confident and didn’t
consider his audience.
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