Morgan
the gap: we allow black to vote they will revenge themselves on white Americans; reader: voters
claim: AA will never rise to political and social equality in the US
reason: natural decay as they can’t do the complex things needed to participate in a democratic republic
evidence: mental difference between white and black Americans
counter rebuttal/ argument: it doesn’t matter what their abilities are, they still have legal and political rights
warrant: (shared values Morgan assumes you share with him) we should want blacks to stay inferior (socially)
individual motivation: white votes, disenfranchise possible voters who would vote against him
case/rhetorical appeal/pathos-emotion: using fear
- 4 rhetorical appeals–
- Style–How the communicative message within an essay is delivered at the sentence-level.
- Personal–Moves by the writer to establish a sense of trust between her/himself and the reader and moves made by the writer to appear knowledgeable about the issue discussed in the essay.
- Emotional–The use of words, allusions, metaphors, and images that evoke emotions from readers and move those readers to action.
- Reason–Logical cogency, that is, the rational arrangement of a claim, reasons, and evidence.
Morgan is using emotion with style. Morgan uses emotional appeal especially when he talks about the virus concept, scaring the generations to come and giving the people a “picture” of this “virus” spreading.
WEB DuBois
claim- in a world in which whites assumed that blacks were inferior, double-consciousness could lead to the internalization of a sense of inferiority
reason- two consciences become one in a community
evidence- p 143 a world with no self-consciouses
counter rebuttal-
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