Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.How does the repetition of the word “must” affect the tone of the piece?

Repeating “must” makes each action sound essential and immediate: the nation’s conscience must be roused, its hypocrisy exposed, and its crimes denounced. This builds a forceful sense that change cannot wait, so the repetition intensifies the speaker’s sense of urgency. The passage may also express anger, but urgency is the effect most directly created by the repeated command-like word.

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