Lesson One: Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1

Question 1

What is the purpose of this rhetorical question?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

to highlight the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence and slavery

Question 2

Douglass’s use of the pronoun “your” in this passage is an example of ironya rhetorical question✔ parallelism.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

irony

Question 3

The first sentence is an example of ✔ a rhetorical questionX parallelismirony.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ a rhetorical question

Question 4

Why does Douglass use parallelism?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Douglass uses parallelism to intensify his criticism, emphasize enslaved people’s lack of liberty, contrast free people with enslaved people, and accuse free Americans of dishonesty and hypocrisy.

Question 5

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?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

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

Lesson One: Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1 Answers

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