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To [the American slave], your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy ā€“ a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

ā€”Frederick Douglass

Why does Douglass use parallelism?

Sagot :

Answer:

In order to make the speech more attracting.

Explanation:

Douglass uses parallelism in order to make his speech more attracting and influencing for the people. Parallelism is also known as parallel structure of a sentence. Parallelism provides a phrase with balance as well as also give phrases a pattern and rhythm. This rhythm makes the structure of the sentence fascinating and the audiences enjoys such type of structure of a sentence

paolaobispo2005

Answer:

to intensify the point of the celebration

to emphasize enslaved peopleā€™s lack of liberty

to contrast free people and enslaved people

to accuse free Americans of dishonesty

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