Use the passages from Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln to answer the question.

Question

"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I
answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all
other days in the year, the gross injustice and
cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him,
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, to Him,
mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and
hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which
would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a
nation on the earth guilty of practices more
shocking and bloody than are the people of the
United States, at this very hour."

""One eighth of the whole population were colored
slaves not distributed generally over the union but
localized in the southern part of it. These slaves
constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All
knew that this interest was somehow the cause of
the war. To strengthen perpetuate and extend this
interest was the object for which the insurgents
would rend the Union even by war while the
government claimed no right to do more than to
restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither
party expected for the war the magnitude or the
duration which it has already attained. Neither
anticipated that the cause of the conflict might
cease with or even before the conflict itself should
cease."

How does the use of tone and point of view differ in the passages?

a. Douglass uses an impartial tone to speak from the point of view of an enslaved person, while Lincoln employs an authoritative tone to speak about slavery from the point of view of an enslaved person.

b. Douglass uses a humorous tone to speak from the point of view of a white American, while Lincoln employs an angry tone to speak about slavery from a moral perspective.

c. Douglass uses a righteous tone to speak from the point of view of an enslaved person, while Lincoln employs a neutral tone to speak about slavery from a detached perspective.

d. Douglass uses a fiery tone to speak from the point of view of an outside observer, while Lincoln employs an impartial tone to speak about slavery from a first-hand perspective.

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

c. Douglass uses a righteous tone to speak from the point of view of an enslaved person, while Lincoln employs a neutral tone to speak about slavery from a detached perspective.

Frederick Douglass’s passage conveys a strong sense of moral outrage and righteousness concerning the injustices faced by enslaved individuals, reflecting the perspective of someone who has experienced the suffering of slavery. In contrast, Abraham Lincoln's passage adopts a more neutral, analytical tone that discusses the causes of the Civil War and the political context surrounding slavery without the same level of emotional intensity.