Analyzing Rhetoric: Mastery Test
Address to the Jury
by Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was a well-known anarchist, meaning someone
who believed voluntary organizations should replace
governments. In 1917, Goldman and fellow anarchist Alexander
Berkman were put on trial for conspiring against the US
government by publishing anarchist magazines. In the following
speech, Goldman defends herself and Berkman
The stage having been appropriately set for the three-act
comedy, and the fint act suc
villains in a madly dashing admobile-which broke every traffic
by played by carrying off the
regulation and barely escaped crushing everyone in its way-the
second act proved even more ludicrous Fitty thousand dollars
bail was demanded, and real estate refused when offered by a
man whose property is valued at three hundred thousand
dollars-and that ather the District Attorney had promised to
accept the property for one of the defendants, Alexander
Berkman, thus breaking every right guaranteed even to the most
heinous criminal
Finally, the third act, played by the Government in this court
during the last week. The pity of it is that the prosecution knows
so little of dramatic construction, otherwise it would have
equipped itself with better dramatic material to sustain the
continuity of the play. As it was, the third act fell flat, utterly, and
presents the question, Why such a tempest in a teapot?
Gendemen of the jury, my comtade and co-defendant having
carefully and thoroughly gone into the evidence presented by the
prosecut
having demonstrated its entire failure to prove
of conspiracy or any overt acts to carry out that
the
the
I shall not impose upon your patience by going over
except to emphasize a few points. To charge
with having conspired to do something which they have
been engaged in doing most of their lives-namely their
against war, mitaria conscription as contrary to
rests of hut nity-is an insult to human intelligence
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How does Goldman's tone shift in the final paragraph?
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OB.
In the first two paragraphs, her tone is objective, but in the last paragraph it is subjective and biased.
In the first two paragraphs, her tone is sarcastic, but in the last paragraph it is serious and respectful
In the first two paragraphs, her tone is enthusiastic, but in the last paragraph, she is pessimistic
OD. In the first two paragraphs, her tone is carefree, but in the last paragraph she is seething with anger
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