Notable speeches from Pericles to Lincoln to Churchill, speakers, context, and devices (without verbatim quotes).
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41 basic cards for High School Rhetoric and Composition. It opens with "Who delivered the Funeral Oration at Athens in 430 BCE, praising democratic" and "What was the primary audience for Pericles' Funeral Oration?". Study it alongside the other High School sets below.
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- Who delivered the Funeral Oration at Athens in 430 BCE, praising democratic government?
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Pericles- What was the primary audience for Pericles' Funeral Oration?
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Families of soldiers killed in the Peloponnesian War- What rhetorical device does Pericles use by contrasting Athenian democracy with other city-states?
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Antithesis (comparison of opposites)- Roman orator who delivered 14 speeches called Philippics against Mark Antony
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)- When were Cicero's Philippic speeches delivered to the Roman Senate?
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44-43 BCE (following Julius Caesar's assassination)- What term, derived from Cicero's harsh attacks, means a bitter public denunciation?
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Philippic- Speaker of the 1588 speech to troops at Tilbury during the Spanish invasion threat
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Queen Elizabeth I- What military threat prompted Elizabeth I's Tilbury speech in 1588?
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The Spanish Armada (Spanish invasion fleet)- In Elizabeth I's Tilbury speech, what does she claim to have despite being a woman?
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The heart and stomach of a king- Speaker of 'Give me liberty or give me death' at the Virginia House of Burgesses
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Patrick Henry- In what year did Patrick Henry deliver his Liberty or Death speech?
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1775- What rhetorical device does Patrick Henry use by presenting only two absolute choices?
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Antithesis or parallelism (liberty versus death)- Benjamin Franklin's famous statement about unity during the Revolution begins how?
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We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately- George Washington's Farewell Address warned against what political development?
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Political parties and sectional divisions, plus permanent foreign alliances- Who delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863?
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Abraham Lincoln
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