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Instructions:

Record five rhetorical strategies that Maria W. Stewart uses in her

Comment [F1]: Hi, Sheana! Thanks for submitting your 1.09 assignment.

Please read the comments below and let me know if you have any questions.

– Mr. Ruszczyk

1832 lecture and explain their effect on the audience.

Rhetorical Strategy

Syntax

Intended Effect on Audience

Gives the reader something to think about. Ms stewart uses this rhetorical strategy to bring out

Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers

deeper meanings in the form of metaphors.

and sours our dispositions; the whole system becomes worn out with toil and failure; nature

The reader can see how Ms Stewarts is done

Comment [F2]: Syntax means sentence structure, so stay focused on that: what effect does the series of clauses connected by semi-colons do?

For example, you might discuss how Stewart uses the structure to include several ideas, to let them accumulate power and meaning.

with her people being treated like servants to herself becomes almost exhausted, and we

the point where they don’t even care about their

care but little whether we live or die.

own lives.

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Imagery

Comment [F3]: Punctuated?

Gives the reader a visual of the kinds of demeaning jobs her people are forced to have.

Neither do I know of any who have enriched themselves by spending their lives as house-

Comment [F4]: Good start, but keep going here, Sheana. Analyze the jobs Stewart describes, the word “enriched” and why Stewart might use the imagery.

domestics, washing windows, shaking carpets, brushing boots, or tending upon gentlemen's tables.

Syntax

Gives the reader an insight as to how serious Ms Stewarts is. She emphasizes how much

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willing she is to die for her cause to her people.

Comment [F6]: Yes! Now, keep going. Explain how the syntax helps emphasize her point.

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I can but die for expressing my sentiments; and I am as willing to die by the sword as the pestilence; for I am a true born American; your blood flows in my veins, and your spirit fires my breast.

Simile

Compares the servants mind to the scorching minds of arabia.

the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia,

Comment [F7]: Good, but keep going. Explain this more fully. What is the intended effect upont the audience?

The author uses this simile to say how labor like this would affect the servant’s brain.

Connotation

The author uses the word labor in a negative term, giving off a somewhat negative mood.

Few white persons of either sex, who are calculated for any thing else, are willing to

Lets the reader know that the type of labor Ms

spend their lives and bury their talents in

Stewart’s is talking about is dreadful.

performing mean, servile labor.

Excerpt from Maria W. Stewart's "Why Sit Ye Here and Die?" Few white persons of either sex, who are calculated for any thing else, are willing to spend their lives and bury their talents in performing mean, servile labor. And such is the horrible idea that I entertain respecting a life of servitude, that if I conceived of there being no possibility of my rising above the condition of a servant, I would gladly hail death as a welcome messenger. O, horrible idea, indeed!

Comment [F8]: Okay, but about the words “mean” and “servile” before labor? What do those suggest? Why would Stewart choose those words?

Overall, you are on the right track here, Sheana. Push your analysis harder, though. Try to add one or two more levels of meaning/analysis for each example.

This lesson serves as a foundation upon which we will build more rhetorical skills. In lesson 1.10, we will explore the connections between audience, author, text, context, and message. Take good notes; it is another important assignment.

to possess noble souls aspiring after high and honorable acquirements, yet confined by the chains of ignorance and poverty to lives of continual drudgery and toil. Neither do I know of any who have enriched themselves by spending their lives as house-domestics, washing windows, shaking carpets, brushing boots, or tending upon gentlemen's tables. I can but die for expressing my sentiments; and I am as willing to die by the sword as the pestilence; for I am a true born American; your blood flows in my veins, and your spirit fires my breast.

I observed a piece in the Liberator a few months since, stating that the colonizationists had published a work respecting us, asserting that we were lazy and idle. I confute them on that point.

Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found; although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?

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Again. It was asserted that we were "a ragged set, crying for liberty." I reply to it, the whites have so long and so loudly proclaimed the theme of equal rights and privileges, that our souls have caught the flame also, ragged as we are. As far as our merit deserves, we feel a common desire to rise above the condition of servants and drudges. I have learnt, by bitter experience, that continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles.

Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system becomes worn out with toil and failure; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die. It is true, that the free people of color throughout these United States are neither bought nor sold, nor under the lash of the cruel driver; many obtain a comfortable support; but few, if any, have an opportunity of becoming rich and independent; and the employments we most pursue are as unprofitable to us as the spider's web or the floating bubbles that vanish into air.

As servants, we are respected; but let us presume to aspire any higher, our employer regards us no longer. And where it not that the King eternal has declared that Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God, I should indeed despair.

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