Question
“What, To a Slave, is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
“What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply. Use the passage to answer the question.
To make his point about slavery, Frederick Douglass mainly employs
A)antithesis
B)pathos
C)logos
D)ethos
“What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply. Use the passage to answer the question.
To make his point about slavery, Frederick Douglass mainly employs
A)antithesis
B)pathos
C)logos
D)ethos
Answers
GPT-4o mini
In the passage from "What, To a Slave, is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglass primarily employs **B) pathos**. He evokes strong emotional responses by vividly describing the brutal conditions and inhumane treatment that enslaved individuals endure. His powerful language aims to provoke feelings of outrage and empathy from his audience, rather than relying solely on logical arguments or appeals to credibility.