Question

To [the American slave], your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass–fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. –Frederick Douglass Why does Douglass use parallelism?

Answer 1

It reinforces the idea that the rights given to others are not extended to African Americans.It addresses the need for equality for all people.It is significant because a prominent leader was suggesting that the unequal treatment of African Americans was in direct opposition to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.African Americans deserve equal treatment and status in American society.It starts with details and uses them to support a more sweeping statement.

Answer 2

Answer:

to intensify the point of the celebration

to emphasize enslaved people's lack of liberty

to contrast free people and enslaved people

to accuse free Americans of dishonesty

Explanation:

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