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What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July is a strong declaration of what July fourth and freedom means to Frederick Douglass. The people who asked him to speak speculated that he would speak of the wonderful freedom the fourth of July bring to him, but things took a turn in the opposite directs. Douglass conveys his opinions through his diction, rhetorical devices, and figurative language. Frederick Douglass used specific diction throughout his speech to convey his points. He uses words such as obdurate, gratitude, Jubilee, rejoice, mourn, rob, liberty, work, ignorant, beat, flay, and sunder. These words bring forward a great deal of emotion. The objective of his diction was to help them in someway grasp the emotional effect of things these
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