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How to Use This Book xxiv Table of Contents – Readings (continued) Skills or Rhetorical Modes Showcased Excerpt from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass It is easy to see, that, in entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, some little experience is needed. Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders. Nothing but rigid training, long persisted in, can perfect the character of the one or the other. One cannot easily forget to love freedom; and it is as hard to cease to respect that natural love in our fellow creatures. Narration Characterization Reflection Weave Argumentation Rhetorical appeals 422 “ Between the World and Me: An Important Book on Race and Racism” by David Saifer “This isn’t a sociological or political text. In the book Coates renders his confusion, his questions, his grief, his anger and his joys with literary clarity, and with a depth that can’t be captured in a dry, “objective” discussion of the issues.” Summary Response 426 “Untitled” (A text wrestling analysis of “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid) by Cassidy Richardson Kincaid made the choice to make her poem into one large paragraph and use semicolons to separate the mother’s advice and commands (without ending the sentence) in order to convey that all of the items on the mother’s list are related in the sense that, when they are applied together, the sum of these actions and behaviors equals what societal and gender norms say it means to be a well-behaved woman. Interpretation Analysis Pattern Synthesis Thesis Evidence (Quote, paraphrase, summarize) 427