Question

How effective is the use of rhetorical devices such as hypophora, parallelism, or repetition in “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!”? Give at least two examples to support your evaluation. Evaluate the effectiveness of Patrick Henry’s speech. Provide two pieces of textual evidence to support your answer.

Answer 1

One use of a rhetorical device is repetition,which is used when he is saying "We must fight! I repeat it,sir,we must fight!" By saying this he is emphasisingor trying to to get the point through meaning that if you want to be free,then you must fight.

Another rhetorical device that he uses is hypophora,which is used when he is saying " Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy enemy in this quarter of the world call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none."

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Answer 2

It is effective in that the rhetorical devices emphasise the message the author is trying to send:

- hypophora

the exclamation and tone that the message sends forth


Parallelism -

repeated use of a grammatical structure in a sentence

"Give me liberty or give me death!" or "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne." or "Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded"



repetition -

repeating words or phrases for emphasis

"The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come."
"We must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!"

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