I know for number one it's Dear, Mrs. Lamont, since it's a name so the comma goes before it. I'm sorry if I'm wrong
The sentence that shows that the speech is addressed to primarily female audience would be: We do not propose to petition the legislature to make our husbands just, generous, and courteous, to seat every man at the head of a cradle, and to clothe every woman in male attire.
I put a highlight on the phrase our husbands. The sentence basically created in order to put a sense of shared experience that every female audience could relate. This type of technique commonly used in order to make the audience feel a sense of unity from the shared experience.
Crossing- present participle
Crossing the street is dangerous and illegal- phrase?
In English, repeating words or phrases is referred to as anaphora. Anaphora is a rhetorical device in which sentences start with the same word or sequence of words. In the example given to us, anaphora is shown by the repetition of the word “hello.”