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Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1 Answers

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What is the purpose of this rhetorical question?

A
to highlight the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence and slavery
B
to discuss liberty and equality experienced by all people under the Declaration of Independence
C
to encourage audience participation in the argument about the Declaration of Independence
D
to illustrate that the Declaration of Independence does not state that people are entitled to liberty
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The first sentence is an example of ✔ a rhetorical questionparallelismirony.

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✔ a rhetorical question
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parallelism
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irony
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Douglass’s use of the pronoun “your” in this passage is an example of X ironya rhetorical question✔ parallelism.

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X irony
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a rhetorical question
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✔ parallelism
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Why does Douglass use parallelism?

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Douglass uses parallelism to intensify his criticism, emphasize enslaved people’s lack of liberty, contrast free people with enslaved people, and accuse free Americans of dishonesty and hypocrisy.

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