Problem
Angelina Grimke´ speaks to all four audience types in this speech: empirical, target, agents of change, and created. Find passages in the speech to support each audience conception.
Identify the ways in which Angelina Grimke´ experiences all four challenges arising from the audience: inattention, misperception, lack of motivation, and inertia.
Prophets are individuals who are "chosen"; they are high authority figures who have "a direct line" to the Almighty. Prophets tend to be courageous and tested. Their duty is to lead a people from their destructive path to a righteous path (recall how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played this role). How does Grimke´ assume the role of a prophet? What audience challenges does this role overcome? Why is it a risky role for her to play? How is it linked to the tone of the speech?
Locate the following kinds of argument in Grimke´'s speech: rhetorical questions, analogy, enactment, a fortiori, refutation, and turning-the-tables. What challenges do these arguments help Grimke´ overcome?