Exploring the Text

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  1. Read the title carefully. Does it invite, urge, enjoin, plead, or command the audience? Which verb do you consider most appropriate? Explain why.

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    Exploring the Text: - Read the title carefully. Does it invite, urge, enjoin, plead, or command the audience? Which verb do you consider most appropriate? Explain why.
  2. How does the poster appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos? Which one is the strongest appeal?

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    Exploring the Text: - How does the poster appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos? Which one is the strongest appeal?
  3. What are the values of the audience that the creator of the lithograph wishes to evoke?

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    Exploring the Text: - What are the values of the audience that the creator of the lithograph wishes to evoke?
  4. Submit the claims suggested by this piece to the Toulmin model (see Chapter 3). What does that analysis reveal about the argument presented?

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    Exploring the Text: - Submit the claims suggested by this piece to the Toulmin model (see Chapter 3). What does that analysis reveal about the argument presented?
  5. This poster was published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1863, two years after Alfred M. Green (p. 673) gave his speech in that city. It is very likely that at least part of the audience for both pieces was the same. Which piece do you think was more persuasive? Why?

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    Exploring the Text: - This poster was published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1863, two years after Alfred M. Green (p. 673) gave his speech in that city. It is very likely that at least part of the audience for both pieces was the same. Which piece do you think was more persuasive? Why?