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Carrie Chapman Catt: The Crisis

The Audience

Rhetorical Devices

  • all women

  • Woman's Rights activist

  • those who are bias against Woman's Rights

  • feminists
  • Diction

  • Metaphor

  • Rhetorical Questions

she asks questions to her audience to get them thinking just before she explains an answer to prove her point.

she uses metaphors, comparing things such as democracy to a wave, destined to sweep over the world. this gives the audience imagery for the argument she is making.

she uses phrases like "final battle", "final conflict" and "final victory" to imply the idea that women's suffrage will be the final battle.

Purpose

The purpose of this speech was to reach out to her audience and motivate them to join the "fight" for women's suffrage; to get women and men alike to recognize the issues with 1916 society.

The Speaker

Pathos

Through much of Catt’s speech, she attempts to invoke excitement and eagerness from her audience to strengthen her argument by asking rhetorical questions and then responding with a compelling exclamation. Her being a women helps create sympathy as well.

  • The speaker is Carrie Chapman Catt.

  • She was was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920.

  • Born on: January 9, 1859

  • Died on: March 9, 1947

Ethos

She is the president of the National Suffrage Association. She is also a women forced to live in such a society.

Logos

Speaking to an audience predominately of women allows Catt to sympathize with her audience because she is in the same position that many of them are in, a woman desiring more out of life than the minimum that many think she is only capable of.

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