In "Speech After Being Convicted of Voting," why does Susan B. Anthony include excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to support her argument?A.Women are not allowed to read those documents, so she is showing rebellion against the government.B.She wants to use the important words within the documents to inspire more emotion from her audience.C.Both documents are well respected, so using them as evidence helps to establish her credibility.D.She feels that those documents are examples of the way the government oppresses women.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Why does Susan B. Anthony use the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as evidence in "Speech After Being Convicted of Voting"?A.To establish ethos by using documents that are respected by her opponentsB.To remind the audience that she is intelligent and well educatedC.To build pathos and create an emotional response in the audienceD.To allow the audience to hear those great documents read aloud

Click to read the passage from "Speech After Having Been Convicted of Voting," by Susan B. Anthony. Then answer the question.What evidence does Anthony offer to support her claims?A.She quotes the Bible.B.She quotes other speeches made by women.C.She quotes the Declaration of Independence.D.She quotes the Gettysburg Address.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

After briefly mentioning her crime, Susan B. Anthony quotes from documents such as the Declaration of Independence before going into more detail about the crime. Why does she wait to elaborate on the main point of her speech?A.She doesn't want the audience to know that she was arrested for a crime, so she tries to hide the crime near the end of the speech.B.She wants the audience to get used to the idea of an intelligent woman speaking so that she can try to change their minds.C.Evidence from respected sources adds strength to her argument and allows her to explain why voting is every woman's right.D.She feels that the words of government documents are better respected than her own arguments about women's suffrage.

What does Susan B. Anthony use in "Speech After Being Convicted of Voting" to appeal to an audience that is likely hostile to the idea of women's suffrage?A.Logic and evidence to establish her credibilityB.Complicated analogies to impress the audienceC.An emotional appeal to the women in the audienceD.Stories to help make her struggles seem real

Structurally, how does Susan B. Anthony add strength to her argument that any law against suffrage is unfair?A.By clearly stating the various viewpoints of her opponents in the introduction and then trying to show the logical fallacies in their arguments in the conclusionB.By allowing the audience to ask questions during the middle of her speech that she will answer after she has discussed her main argumentC.By briefly mentioning her crime in the introduction and then presenting facts from respected documents before giving more details about the crime near the endD.By engaging the audience's emotions from the beginning of her speech and telling them sad stories