"What, To a Slave, is the Fourth of July?"

Question

by Frederick Douglass

But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it.

What, to a Slave, is the Fourth of July?

"Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address"
by Abraham Lincoln

"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."

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Question
Use the passages to answer the question.

Which statement best compares the rhetorical devices used in the passages?

(1 point)
Responses

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July employs rhetorical questions and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural uses anaphora.
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July employs rhetorical questions and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural uses anaphora.

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July employs parallelism and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural uses hypophora.
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July employs parallelism and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural uses hypophora.

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July employs antithesis and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural uses juxtaposition.
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July employs antithesis and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural uses juxtaposition.

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July employs juxtaposition and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural uses allusion.

Answer 1

The best comparison of the rhetorical devices used in the passages is:

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July employs rhetorical questions and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural uses anaphora.

In Douglass's speech, he uses rhetorical questions to provoke thought about the hypocrisy of the Fourth of July for enslaved people. In contrast, Lincoln's address uses anaphora, as seen in the repeated phrases such as "with malice toward none" and "with charity for all," to emphasize his call for unity and healing in a nation divided by war.