Question

Now, write a comparison of the rhetoric in Stanton’s “A Plea for the Oppressed” and Lewis’s speech at the King Memorial groundbreaking. In your analysis, explain how the two speakers use similar or different strategies to achieve their purposes. Include your paragraph from Part B and the information you included in the table in Part C. Be sure to include textual evidence and commentary in your response.

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Answer: PLATO
In two speeches, delivered 150 years apart, two activists use rhetoric to advocate for basic human dignity. Here is how their rhetorical strategies compare.

Stanton’s Logos Appeal. In “A Plea for the Oppressed,” Lucy Stanton’s purpose is to convince her audience that the fight to end to slavery is their fight. One of most effective parts of her speech is her logos appeal to reformers in the audience, such as those in the peace movement. She connects their cause to the cause of abolition in a powerful extended metaphor that begins, “Slavery is the combination of all crime. It is War.” Showing the logical connection between war and slavery makes it difficult for peace activists to fail to support abolition.

Lewis’s Ethos Appeal. Representative John Lewis’s purpose in his speech at the King Memorial groundbreaking is to remind the nation that King’s work is unfinished. His primary appeal is ethos. He is able to make this appeal by drawing on his position as a popular representative, a leader of the civil rights movement, and a personal friend of Martin Luther King’s. In a series of parallel phrases, Lewis establishes that he and King were very close. The anecdote Lewis recalls about being a teenager in the segregated South, and the impact of hearing King on the radio, adds a strong emotional appeal to the ethical one as Lewis calls for the next generation to carry on King’s legacy. He is uniquely qualified to commemorate King.

The different appeals each speaker emphasizes reflects their status. Stanton was young graduate, and Lewis was a revered politician. Both weave all three appeals into their speeches, but only Lewis can lean heavily on the ethical appeal.

Answer 1

Hi. A comparison between two speeches should be made through your personal perception and your interpretation between the two speeches. In that case, I can't write a comparison of the two articles for you, but I can show you how to write one and that's what I'm going to do below.

The first step for you to write this comparison is to read the two speeches and understand their main theme. Stanton's speech refers to how the struggle for slavery must be a struggle of all citizens, while Lewis's speech refers to how the struggle for civil rights, initiated by King, is not yet over.

In your comparison, you should observe how these two themes are developed and presented by each author and what strategies they use to convince the public to support their positions.

These strategies and how you can see them are described below:

• Pathos: The author stimulates the public's sentimentality, pointing out emotional issues that arouse the public's sensitivity to the subject.
• Ethos: The author encourages the public's ethical sense, pointing out issues related to ethics, politics and morals within society.
• Logos: The author stimulates logic, presenting questions that stimulate logical thinking and deductive and inductive reasoning throughout the audience.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Here's the PLATO answer rephrased. Feel free to use.

Explanation:

Lewis used rhetorical appeal to achieve his purpose, of the appeals being ethos; the appeal to authority and credibility. He tries to remind his audience that Martin Luther King's work had not yet impacted the world enough. That's why he made the appeal to authority by telling the audience about his personal relationship with King, a powerful and important figure. He also uses pathos when he tells a story about hearing King on the radio when he was younger, appealing to his audience's emotions. Using parallel phrases (the rhetorical devices in question) he makes his speeches worthwhile.

Stanton used a logos appeal. Her purpose for giving her speech is to encourage her audience to work toegther to end slavery. Her logos appeal was connecting the beliefs of abolitionists (some of her audience) to the morality of slavery. "Slavery is the combination of all crime. It is War." This is a convincing point for abolitionists and fighters for human rights all around the world. 

Both use similar and different strategies to achieve their purposes but however it cannot be denied that they used rhetorical appeals and devices.