Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

If we wish to be free if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight!

What rhetorical device does Patrick Henry employ in this excerpt from his Virginia Convention speech?

A. antithesis
B. parallelism
C. an appeal to reason
D. a rhetorical question

Answer 1

The correct answer is B "parallelism"

Answer 2

The correct answer is B "parallelism". This rethorical device consists of the repetition of the same grammatical figure. We can see in this excerpt that it is used the word "if" to start saying the idea the narrator wants to be known.