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Jacobs and Truth: Voice, Audience, and Intersection — Homework
Reread this week's Jacobs and Truth excerpts before answering.
- 1.What specific rhetorical move does Jacobs make when asking her readers not to judge her by standards of freedom she never had?
- 2.Name the refrain Sojourner Truth repeats after each piece of physical evidence in her remarks.
- 3.Explain how Truth builds ethos differently from how Douglass builds it in his Narrative.
- 4.Why might a purely anti-slavery argument or a purely women's-rights argument, alone, fail to capture Jacobs's or Truth's full situation?
- 5.In six or more sentences, explain which of the two speakers' strategies you find more persuasive and why, using specific textual evidence from each.
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