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Douglass's Fourth of July: Irony as Argument — Homework
Reread Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" before answering.
- 1.Explain the effect of Douglass's shift from "your" to "my/our" throughout the speech.
- 2.Why does Douglass praise the Founders' courage before criticizing the nation's failure to live up to their principles?
- 3.Identify the rhetorical question Douglass asks and answers in this speech.
- 4.Explain how Douglass uses the Declaration's own language as evidence against the nation, rather than arguing against the Declaration itself.
- 5.In six or more sentences, compare this speech's use of irony to the Declaration's structure studied in Week 9, citing at least one specific phrase from each.
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