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Question

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Which statement BEST compares the rhetoric devices used in the passages?

A) what to the slave is the Fourth of July employee juxtaposition and Lincoln’s second inaugural used allusion.

B) what to the slave is the Fourth of July employee parallelism and Lincoln’s second inaugural used hypophora.

C)what to the slave is the Fourth of July employee antithes and Lincoln’s second inaugural used juxtaposition.

D)what to the slave is the Fourth of July employee rhetoric questions and Lincoln’s second inaugural used anaphora.

Answer 1

To answer the question, we need to analyze the rhetorical devices used in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass and in "Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address."

• Frederick Douglass uses juxtaposition by contrasting the celebration of freedom and independence (the Fourth of July) with the reality of slavery.
• Abraham Lincoln employs parallelism in the phrase "with malice toward none, with charity for all" to create a rhythmic and emphatic statement about unity and compassion.

The correct comparison of rhetorical devices between the two texts is given in option A.

So the answer is: A) what to the slave is the Fourth of July employed juxtaposition and Lincoln’s second inaugural used allusion.