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Who's the audience? How do you know?

Summary and Important Quotes

Ethos, Pathos,Logos

Audience- General Washington

Evidence- “Proceed great Chief, with virtue on thy side, thy ev’ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine with gold unfading, WASHINGTON! Be thine.

Ethos(ethics and morals)- Muse, Columbia, Goddess

Pathos(emotion)- Whole poem

Logos(logic)- one century, French Indian war

Summary- Wheatley is glorifying the victory of the colonists struggling to be free from England and the general theme is “freedom cause” and Wheatley is the groundbreaker in beginning the Washington legend as the “father of our country”.

Important Quotes- “Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write.” (Wheatley 125) “How pour her armies through a thousand gates, as when Eolus heaven’s fair face deforms, Enwrapp’d in tempest and a night of storms.” ( Wheatley 125)

Persuasive Techniques

Rhetorical Question- “Shall I to Washington their praise recite?”

Parallelism- “Anon Britannia droops the pensive head, While round increase the rising hills of dead.” “A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine.”

Antithesis- Light and night

"To His Excellency, General Washington"- Phillis Wheatley

Simile, Metaphor, Allusion

By: Kaitlyn, Daniel, Mckenna, Joshua, Jonnaya

Simile- 1.“How pour her armies through a thousand gates, As when Eolus heaven’s fair face deforms…” (Wheatley 125) compares the power of the American army to Eolus, ancient God of the wind. “think as leaves in Autumn’s golden reign, such, and so many, moves the Warriors train” compares warriors train to Autumn's golden reign.” (Wheatley 125)

Metaphor- veil of night compares night to veil

Allusion- Britannia, Eolus

What's the author's purpose? How do you know?

Author’s purpose- The author’s purpose is to show freedom

Evidence- “See mother earth her offspring’s fate bemoan, And nations gaze at scenes before unknow! See the bright beams of heaven’s revolving light Involve in sorrows and the veil of night!” (Wheatley 125)

THE END

Revolutionary Time Period Project

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