Pankhurst: context and an introduction to rhetoric for gender specific injustice

Pankhurst: context and an introduction to rhetoric for gender specific injustice

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn about Emmeline Pankhurst, an iconic suffragette who used rhetorical language to highlight the injustices faced by women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. We will explore the language that Emmeline Pankhurst used to create a large feminist following, and ultimately to drive social change that changed the world forever.

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6 Questions

Q1.
What is injustice?
If something is right but unfair, morally
If something is right, either morally or legally
If something is unfair but right, legally
Correct answer: if something is unfair, either morally or legally
Q2.
Sojourner Truth opens her speech with:
A powerful word
Correct answer: A question
A tricolon
An exclamatory sentence
Q3.
Truth uses a tricolon to demonstrate that she is:
Correct answer: As strong as a man
More intelligent than a man
More outspoken than a man
Stronger than a man
Q4.
Truth's anecdote of her enslaved children is:
credible
Correct answer: emotive
illogical
logical
Q5.
The final exclamatory sentence prompts the audience to:
Correct answer: Act
Boo
Clap
Listen
Q6.
It was difficult for women to speak out because they had:
Less problems
Correct answer: Less rights
Less time
Less words

6 Questions

Q1.
Truth suffered injustice because:
She spoke about injustice
She was born in the 1800s
Correct answer: She was enslaved during her life
Correct answer: She was female
Q2.
Suffragettes and Suffragists campaigned for women's right to:
exercise
speak
Correct answer: vote
work
Q3.
Two key leaders of the Suffragettes movement were:
Correct answer: Christabel Pankhurst
Correct answer: Emmeline Pankhurst
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Q4.
The suffragettes took a violent approach to protest, by (select three answers):
Correct answer: Breaking windows
Correct answer: Handcuffing themselves to railings
Correct answer: Hunger strikes
Kidnapping members of parliament
Starting fires
Q5.
What was the suffragettes' motto?
Correct answer: Deeds not words
Please and thank you
Words not deeds
Words not speech
Q6.
The rhetorical language Pankhurst used was:
feminine
magical
masculine
Correct answer: military

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UnitEnglish / Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth

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