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Rhetorical Devices In Black Hawk's Surrender Speech
In "Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, 1832" he uses rhetorical devices that show the evilness of the white people as he is being taken prisoner. They cheat and take the land of the Indians as they try to fight back. His usage of literary terms shows how the white people began slowly to control them. "I saw my evil day at hand." This demonstrates how the white people quickly betrayed the Indians and cheat their way into their society. Black hawk saw how soon his home was being destroyed. "They poisoned us by their touch." The white men were like a virus quickly spreading and damaging everything they set out to take.

Black Hawk a brave warrior avenges his people "...and the heart of Black Hawk swelled high in his bosom when he led
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