to highlight the hypocrisy of celebrating freedom when slavery is still practiced in America
Hypophora is when an author asks a question and then immediately answers it. Often the question serves as a way in to the topic of the writing. In this case, Douglass asks about celebrating the day in which America became free. Given that not everyone in America is free, he questions the reasons for celebrating.
The word razor is trochaic because it consists of Ra - zor in which ra is accented and pronounced the clearest and loudest. If zor was accented then it would be iambic.
