"Declaration of Sentiments..." by E.C. Stanton

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Stanton, woman, women’s rights activist

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the first official Women’s Rights meeting at Seneca Falls

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U.S. Lawmakers, people against women having equal rights with men

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to argue that women deserve equal rights with men

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parody, hyperbole, eloquent diction, cataloging

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indignant, well-informed

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tone

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• “disfranchisement” “degradation” “deprived” “insist”

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purpose

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• “no voice” “withheld from her rights” “ignorant and degraded men”

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speaker

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• “the declaration of sentiments and resolutions,” written by elizabeth cady stanton

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style

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• “that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
• “teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known”

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audience

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• “to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world”

- “we shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the state and national legislatures”

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parallel structure

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• “he has never” “he has compelled” “he has withheld”

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tone

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• “injuries” “usurpations” “absolute tyranny”
• “monopolized” “permitted” “scanty remuneration”
• “exclusion” “exclude”
• “deprived” “oppressed” “civilly dead” “obedience” “chastisement”

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syntax

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• “woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government, which”

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listing

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• “aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived” “misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule”

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parody

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• “self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”

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repetition

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• “her exclusion” “exclude women”

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metonymy

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• “when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man”

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occasion

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• “such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now”