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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| did a Dynamic speech against the Stamp Act. | Patrick Henry |
| one of the most persuasive figures in Virginia politics | Patrick Henry |
| the Great Awakening was happening when he was a boy | Patrick Henry |
| gave his Liberty or death speech as colonies were nearing the Breaking Point with England | Patrick Henry |
| this guy was at a famous gathering with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson | Patrick Henry |
| this guy went to a convention that was held in Richmond Virginia to decide how to respond | Patrick Henry |
| he took an ivory letter opener and plunged it to his chest | Patrick Henry |
| he rose and gave his speech after many other speeches in favor of compromise were told | Patrick Henry |
| logical or emotional? I know what course others may take but as for me Give me liberty or give me death! | emotional |
| logical or emotional? and what have we to opposed to them shall we try argument sir we have been trying that for the last 10 years | logical |
| a question asked for a fact not meant to be answered | rhetorical question |
| comparison of two dissimilar things | metaphor |
| reference to something with which people are expected to be familiar | allusion |
| repetition of the same key word | repetition |
| repetition of the same phrase structure | parallelism |
| a forceful statement of belief (!) | exclamation |
| the most persuasive writer of the American Revolution | Thomas Paine |
| born in England and not formally educated | Thomas Paine |
| he tried to organize the employees in order to demand higher wages | Thomas Paine |
| came to America to make a new start | Thomas Paine |
| Ben Franklin wrote him a letter of introduction | Thomas Paine |
| he labeled the King of England a bruit and wrote that a continent should not be tied to an island | Thomas Paine |
| he defended a Republican government and called upon the English to overthrow their King. as a result he was tried for treason and kicked out of the country | Thomas Paine |
| imprisoned in France because he was a citizen of enemy Nation | Thomas Paine |
| wrote about deism and Americans labeled him wrongly an atheist | Thomas Paine |
| stripped of his right to vote and continually harassed | Thomas Paine |