Answers ELA11 ELA 11 Sem 1 26-27Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1

Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1 Answers

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What is the purpose of this rhetorical question?

to highlight the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence and slavery

to discuss liberty and equality experienced by all people under the Declaration of Independence

to encourage audience participation in the argument about the Declaration of Independence

to illustrate that the Declaration of Independence does not state that people are entitled to liberty

The first sentence is an example of .

a rhetorical question

parallelism

irony

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

irony

a rhetorical question

parallelism

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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

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