Year 8
Churchill: Reading and structural analysis of rhetoric
Year 8
Churchill: Reading and structural analysis of rhetoric
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will explore how Churchill's use of rhetoric motivated the masses. We will consider how Churchill attempted to convince his audience to remain strong, despite the many hardships of war, using language to recognise the achievement of the British troops. We will examine the pivotal moments of Churchill's speech to consider to what extent his speech was successful rhetoric in action.
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6 Questions
Q1.
What is an appositive?
A noun to persuade a phrase within a sentence.
A phrase to persuade a noun within a sentence.
A sentence to describe or explain a noun within a phrase
Q2.
Winston Churchill did this when he left the Conservatives to join the Liberals:
'ran the floor'
'stood on the floor'
'walked the floor'
Q3.
Churchill's speech was made just after the famous evacuation at:
Dunbirk
Duncar
Duntrain
Q4.
ignominious means:
Public fame
Public fear
Public praise
Q5.
Using language, Churchill:
Exaggerates the danger for the enemy
Exaggerates the media
Exaggerates the war
Q6.
Churchill doesn't motivate within the opening because he needs to:
Not spend a long time talking
Present the enemy as not really threatening
Think about what he says
6 Questions
Q1.
Facts and figures help to build:
Dialysis
Ethos
Pathos
Q2.
Pivotal means:
of little importance in relation to the development of something else.
of most importance from a consequence of something else.
of some importance to the success of something else.
Q3.
Churchill's depiction of Dunkirk as a 'miracle of deliverance' makes use of:
hyper conscious
hyperactive
hyperbola
Q4.
To be patriotic means to have:
devotion for the war
devotion for your cat
devotion for your siblings
Q5.
Churchill flatters both sides to appear as:
homelike
honest
hopeful
Q6.
After complimenting the enemy, Churchill reveals that Britain's pilots are:
super
superlative
superstitious