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Sitting Bull Rhetorical Analysis
Out of the variety of rhetorical devices Sitting Bull could have used, two were mostly present. The rhetorical devices that were most presently used in his speech was a mixture of both Logos and Pathos. This is due to the fact that he talks about the white settlers in conjunction to how he feels about them and how he feels about what they do to his people and the Earth herself. "Yet hear me, friends! we have now to deal with another people, small and feeble when our forefathers first met with them, but now great and overbearing” shows not only how he thinks of the white settlers, but also how their strength has evolved over time compared to when they first arrived. As Sitting Bull states “They compel her to produce out of season, and when sterile

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