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Audience in Informational Texts
This activity will help you meet these educational goals:
You will cite textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly and
implicitly; determine and examine a central idea, analyzing its development in the text;
provide an objective summary of the text; determine the meaning of words and
phrases in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings, analyze
the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone; determine an
author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how rhetoric advances that
point of view or purpose; delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a
text, assessing the reasoning and evidence presented; identify false statements and
fallacious reasoning; analyze seminal US documents of historical or literary
significance.
Directions
Read the instructions for this self-checked activity. Type in your response to each
question and check your answers. At the end of the activity, write a brief evaluation of
your work.
Activity
Read Lincoln's First Inaugural Address C and his letter to Republican
Congressman James T. Hale. Then answer the following questions,
Part A
In the table, describe each characteristic (tone, structure, purpose, word choice,
sentence structure) of Lincoln's First Inaugural Address.