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 , with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. –frederick douglass why does douglass use parallelism?