The main rhetorical device used in the excerpt is a rhetorical question. Patrick Henry is questioning the justification of hope based on past actions, encouraging his audience to reflect critically on the situation without expecting a direct answer.
Read the excerpt from Patrick Henry’s speech “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.” What is the main rhetorical device used in the excerpt?
I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House.
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hyperbole
hyperbole
juxtaposition
juxtaposition
rhetorical question
rhetorical question
analogy
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