Question

Read the following excerpt from the speech "No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery" by William Lloyd Garrison. Which rhetorical technique does Garrison use to make an emotional appeal?

What then is to be done? Friends of the slave, the question is not whether by our efforts we can abolish slavery, speedily or remotely for duty is ours, the result is with God; but whether we will go with the multitude to do evil, sell our birthright for a mess of pottage, cease to cry aloud and spare not, and remain in Babylon when the command of God is "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Let us stand in our lot, "and having done all, to stand." At least, a remnant shall be saved. Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with slavery! Liberty for each, for all, forever! Man above all institutions! The supremacy of God over the whole earth!"

A.ad hominem
B.biblical allusion
C.red herring
D.weak analogy

Answer 1

B.biblical allusion

Step-by-step explanation:

The literal meaning of an allusion is a device that stimulates ideas, associations and information in the reader's mind with the help of a few words that refer to a common phrase, in other words a quotation, reference or mention, indirect and brief on something or someone. It also depends on what the reader understands the hidden meaning behind the words, if he is familiar with the related phrase. Biblical allusions definition is the same except that these references to the reader are from the Holy Bible.

In this case, Garrison explaining the atrocities that enslavement causes an allusion to the atrocities that were practiced in Babylon. This allusion is made to a part of the Bible that shows that God wanted the righteous to leave Babylon, where Garrison shows that God also wanted righteous people to abandon slavery.

Answer 2

I would say the correct answer is B. Biblical allusion.
Garrison is mentioning Babylon in this excerpt, and Babylon is mentioned in the Bible as the place where prostitutes lived. So in the excerpt, God is bidding people to leave that sinful place and not participate in those atrocities, which Garrison used to compare to the atrocities of slavery.