Answer the following text-dependent questions. These questions come from page 72 in your Springboard textbook. Refer back to the speech by Obama (pages 68-72) to answer the questions. 1. Key Ideas and Details: The president begins his speech with statements about the audience’s feelings and then a story about his own childhood. Why does he begin his speech in this way?

To help the audience understand he cares about them and their opinions. The story about his childhood is to let the audience know he is a person who has struggled, and overcame them and became someone more.

2. Key Ideas and Details: What is the main idea of this speech?

3. Craft and Structure: What rhetorical appeal (logos, ethos, or pathos) is represented by the hypothetical situations in paragraph 9?

4. Craft and Structure: What type of appeal is most prominent in paragraphs 13-16? Why might the speaker choose to include his own personal story here?

5. Craft and Structure: In paragraph 17, what is the effect of the president’s repeated use of the word maybe?

6. Craft and Structure: In paragraphs 18-24, what does the president do to overcome potential resistance by his audience? Does this approach rely more on logos or pathos? Explain.

7. Craft and Structure: What is the purpose of the questions the president asks in paragraph 34?

8. Working from the text:
Review the rhetorical appeals definitions at the beginning of the activity. Find one example of each appeal from President Obama’s speech and write the quote next to the appropriate rhetorical appeal.

Logos: (Text)

Pathos: (Audience)

Ethos: (Speaker)

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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throughout the ancient epic of gilgamesh, the protagonist, gilgamesh of course, exhibited many character traits that made him a true epic hero. one great trait that gilgamesh acquires of an epic hero is that he's a courageous and confident leader. in the text enkidu is too afraid to fight, but he's positive that gilgamesh has the ability to triumph against humbaba. gilgamesh tells enkidu to not be afraid and then continues on to remind him of all the victories he's had against similar foe. gilgamesh proves that he's confident by encouraging enkidu and shows he's courageous when enkidu ask gilgamesh to battle humbaba alone because he knows that gilgamesh will reign victorious.

another characteristic that makes gilgamesh an epic hero is that he's brave and takes risks. "dread surged through gilgamesh, terror flooded his muscles, his heart froze, his mouth went dry, his legs shook, his feet were rooted to the ground. / gilgamesh felt his courage return. they charged at humbaba like two wild bulls." when reading the first part of the quote you see that gilgamesh is terrified of humbaba, and realizing that humbaba is the antagonist he's about to battle is taking a big risk. gilgamesh soon shows how brave he is by not letting his fear of humbaba overtake him, instead he went charging into the face of fear and triumphs.

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