Both passages include rhetorical questions. Sojourner Truth uses rhetorical questions to challenge the notion that Christ's gender excludes women from having rights, while Elizabeth Cady Stanton uses rhetorical questions to highlight the injustices faced by women and to provoke thought about societal standards.
"'Ain't I a Woman' Speech" by Sojourner Truth Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it. The men better let them. Ain't I a Woman, Sojourner Truth, 1851
"Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton He has created a false public sentiment, by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man. He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and her God. He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. Declaration of Sentiments, signed at the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Question Use the passages to answer the question. Which elements do both of these foundational documents include? (1 point) Responses
argumentative lists
informal tone
rhetorical questions
religious imagery
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