TRY IT Analyze Rhetorical Devices Why does Douglass use parallelism?
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,
Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception,
impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to
cover up crimes which would disgrace a
nation of savages.
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