The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

1. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Slave Narrative

2. Vocabulary

3. Literary terms • Slave Narrative • Autobiographical account of life as a slave • Story about slavery told from slave’s point of view • Uniquely American literary genre

4. Literary Terms • Author’s purpose • The reason an author uses the language or literary tool that he/she uses • to inform, persuade, or entertain

5. Literary Terms • Mood • The emotions you feel while you are reading

6. Literary Terms • 3 Elements of Persuasion • Logos • Appeals to the reader’s reason, logic • Pathos • Author appeals to the reader’s emotions, feelings • Ethos • Author appeals to the reader’s morals, sense of right and wrong

7. Elements of Persuasion LOGOS: Author appeals to our logic, reason, or common sense Rhetorical Triangle PATHOS: Author appeals to our sense of emotions (often use charged words that trigger specific feelings) ETHOS: Author appeals to our sense of fairness, justice, morals, right and wrong

8. Logos • The author appeals to reader’s logic, reason, or common sense. • What makes sense to the reader? • What can be reasoned by the reader?

9. Pathos • The author appeals to the reader’s emotions • Uses words to create feelings of anger or sympathy horror stench groans dread shrieks

10. Ethos • The author appeals to the reader’s, fairness, justice, sense of right and wrong • The reader understands ideas or events as not being fair or acceptable

11. Olaudah Equiano Bio • 1745-1797 • Son of tribal elder in Benin, West Africa • Age 11, he and sister kidnapped • Sold to British slave traders, worked at sea • Curious young man: learned about navigation; managed master’s finances • After ten years, made money and bought freedom

12. Olaudah Equiano bio • Moved to England • Involved in abolition of slavery • 1787 took freed slaves to Freetown, Sierra Leone to establish settlement • 1789 autobiography published • Sold in US and England • Made society face cruelty of slavery • Slavery abolished 20 years after publication