What is the purpose of this rhetorical question?
Douglass’s use of the pronoun “your” in this passage is an example of X ironya rhetorical question✔ parallelism.
The first sentence is an example of ✔ a rhetorical questionparallelismirony.
Douglass contrasts the typical American’s view of the Fourth of July with enslaved people’s view of the same occasion. What effect did this likely have on white readers?
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