TASK: In a one-paragraph response, analyze how Sojourner Truth uses one rhetorical device to shape, or develop, her argument in her speech “Ain’t I a Woman.” Follow the ABCD format and write your response below Short Response Writing: You can remember how to write a short response using the ABCD Format: For short answer response questions, it is important to first clearly state your thesis, or Answer. Next, provide relevant Background details about the text you are analyzing. Then Cite evidence to support your thesis. Lastly, Discuss and Explain the importance of this evidence and how it proves your answer.

A – ANSWER: Restate the question into a statement and give a straightforward answer. You must clearly express your argument, claim, or position on the question.
Avoid the following words or phrases in your conclusion: “I think/believe,” ”maybe,” or “probably.”
B – BACKGROUND: Briefly introduce relevant details about the text. Also, consider any important details about the speaker or the occasion. Do NOT summarize the entire text. Rather, focus on the main connections or parts of the text you analyzed in order to draw your conclusion.
Sentence Starters: Over the course of the speech... OR In the speech.. OR The speaker...
C - CITE EVIDENCE: Use relevant textual evidence which supports your thesis (Answer). Your evidence should include the writing strategy you are analyzing and prove how you reached your answer.
Sentence Starters: According to the text, “(QUOTE).” OR The author states, “(QUOTE).”
D – DISCUSS & EXPLAIN FURTHER: Clarify and elaborate on how your evidence supports your answer. First focus on what the evidence means, or reveals, but more importantly, why it matters. Discuss how and why the evidence is significant to proving your conclusion.
Sentence Starters: This example of (writing strategy) demonstrates… OR This example of (writing strategy) reveals how… OR The author is suggesting… OR This is significant because…

SPEACH-

May I say a few words? Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place!

And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. And ain't I a woman?

As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman have a pint, and a man a quart — why can’t she have her little pint full? You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, — for we can’t take more than our pint’ll hold. The poor men seems to be all in confusion, and don’t know what to do. Why children, if you have woman’s rights, give it to her and you will feel better. You will have your own rights, and they won’t be so much trouble.

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.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.