Question
"What, To a Slave, is the Fourth of July?"
by Frederick Douglass
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.
What, to a Slave, is the Fourth of July?
"Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address"
by Abraham Lincoln
"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ~ all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place devoted altogether to saving the Union without war insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war ~ seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Question
Use the passages to answer the question.
The first passage’s use of the phrase “To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license” and the second passage’s use of the phrase “one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish” are both examples of which rhetorical technique?
(1 point)
Responses
hypophora
hypophora
rhetorical questions
rhetorical questions
allusion
allusion
juxtaposition
by Frederick Douglass
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.
What, to a Slave, is the Fourth of July?
"Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address"
by Abraham Lincoln
"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ~ all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place devoted altogether to saving the Union without war insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war ~ seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Question
Use the passages to answer the question.
The first passage’s use of the phrase “To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license” and the second passage’s use of the phrase “one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish” are both examples of which rhetorical technique?
(1 point)
Responses
hypophora
hypophora
rhetorical questions
rhetorical questions
allusion
allusion
juxtaposition
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The phrases in both passages can be seen as examples of **juxtaposition**.
In the first passage, Douglass contrasts the celebration of Independence Day with the reality of slavery, emphasizing the chasm between the ideals of liberty and the lived experience of enslaved people. In the second passage, Lincoln contrasts the two opposing perspectives on war and survival, presenting the stark choice between fighting for the nation or allowing it to perish.
So, the correct answer is **juxtaposition**.
In the first passage, Douglass contrasts the celebration of Independence Day with the reality of slavery, emphasizing the chasm between the ideals of liberty and the lived experience of enslaved people. In the second passage, Lincoln contrasts the two opposing perspectives on war and survival, presenting the stark choice between fighting for the nation or allowing it to perish.
So, the correct answer is **juxtaposition**.