Answers STPSB_English III 2627 RhodusAbolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1

Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1 Answers

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What is the purpose of this rhetorical question?

to highlight the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence and slavery

to discuss liberty and equality experienced by all people under the Declaration of Independence

to encourage audience participation in the argument about the Declaration of Independence

to illustrate that the Declaration of Independence does not state that people are entitled to liberty

Douglass’s use of the pronoun “your” in this passage is an example of ironya rhetorical questionparallelism.

irony

a rhetorical question

parallelism

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