Read the excerpt below and answer the question. If we wish to be free if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privile
ges for which we have been so long contending if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! What rhetorical device does Patrick Henry employ in this excerpt from his Virginia Convention speech? antithesis parallelism an appeal to reason a rhetorical question
The writer uses a series of resources to appeal to people's reason in order to gain support for a fight. He reminds the audience about work already done "if we mean not to basely abandon the noble struggle we have so long engaged". Moreover, a moral commitment is brought up "we have pledged ourselves never to abandon...". The appeal is presented so that no answers other than to forge ahead and fight seem reasonable.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an annual long-distance sled dog race run in early March from Anchorage to Nome, entirely within the US state of Alaska. Mushers and a team of 14 dogs, of which at least 5 must be on the towline at the finish line, cover the distance in 8–15 days or more.
