"Ain't I a Woman?" - Sojourner Truth and FDR Speech

Sojourner Truth makes a reference to the Biblical character Eve. Which literary device is represented?

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

• alliteration

• allusion

• anastrophe

• anaphora

• personification

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the intention of Sojourner Truth in repeating the line "and ain't I a woman?"

• Sojourner Truth is asking a question.

• Truth is proclaiming her worth as a U.S. citizen.

• Sojourner Truth is proudly proclaiming her status as a freed slave.

• Truth has already has done the things that men have said would be too difficult.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In paragraph 5, why does Truth make the following statement? "I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me!"

• Truth is displaying her religious beliefs.

• She is reminding her audience that she has spent most of her life alone.

• She is wanting her audience to understand her pain and suffering.

• She is hoping people will help her find her children.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the main point Truth tries to make through her words?

• Women are more qualified than men.

• She is a woman.

• Men treat women similar to slaves.

• Women are equal to men.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of these does Sojourner Truth NOT argue?

• She has endured the sale of her own children.

• It is said that women need to be helped into carriages, yet no one ever helped her.

• The U.S. Constitutions state that all people are created equal.

• Christ came from a woman.

In paragraph 5, which word BEST defines the words of Sojourner Truth? "I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me!"

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• personification

• allusion

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What rhetorical device is at work in paragraph 7? Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

• hook

• call to action

• rhetorical question

• rhetorical proclamation

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the purpose of a rhetorical question?

• The speaker wants the audience to think.

• The speaker simply wants an answer from the audience.

• The speaker wants to see if the audience is listening.

• A speaker will add the rhetorical question in order to make time for a pause so that there is time for a breath.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Using context clues, explain what "gathered into barns" means in the following lines:

Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could do better than me!

• Held meetings in barns.

• Harvested crops and placed them in farm buildings to keep through inclement weather.

• Hidden in farm buildings.

• Planted a large crop.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Using context clues, explain what "out of kilter" means in the following lines:

...there must be something out of kilter.

• right

• wrong

• crooked

• heavy

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4