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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Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods."another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness.which  best  describes how the excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the excerpt provides facts about the tree, which impresses readers’ scientific minds.the excerpt describes how the tree traveled to london, which excites the readers’ sense of adventure.the excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree.the excerpt explains how to skin a tree, which makes readers feel awed at the height of the tree.