Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1

Question 1

The first sentence is an example of .

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a rhetorical question

Question 2

Check all the points you included in your answer.

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to intensify the point of the celebration; to emphasize enslaved people’s lack of liberty; to contrast free people and enslaved people; to accuse free Americans of dishonesty

Question 3

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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It likely made them recognize their own hypocrisy in celebrating the holiday.

Question 4

Douglass’s use of the pronoun “your” in this passage is an example of .

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parallelism

Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1 Answers

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