Question

Are there any rhetorical devices in the text?

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours? You haven't even made progress, if what's being given to you you should have had already. That's not progress . And I love my Brother Lomax, the way he pointed out we're right back where we were in 1954. We're not even as far up as we were in 1954. We're behind where we were in 1954. There's more segregation now than there was in 1954. There's more racial animosity , more racial hatred, more racial violence today in 1964 than there was in 1954. Where is the progress?

Answer 1

How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours ?

How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what’s already yours ?

Where is the progress?

Answer 2

epistrophes- repetition of “1954”
anaphora- first two sentences... “how can...”