Question

(a) Find one instance where Henry answers a possible objection to his argument with a series of rhetorical questions. (b) What purpose does this series of questions serve? 2. List two ideas that Henry repeats using different words. 3. Find one example of parallelism. (See definition, textbook p. 1168)

Answer 1

Answer:

a) One instance where Henry answers a possible objection to his argument is paragraph 3: Narratio and Confirmatio.

b) The questions are preparing Henry´s speech to be contextualized.

2. The ideas are "loneliness" and "the time to fight".

3. “We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated; we have implored…”

Explanation:

a)  "Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"

b) Henry prompts his colleagues respectfully using a series of questions to convince them that fight is a necessity.

2. "Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us." and  "Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.

"If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest." and "Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come!"

3. This is a parallel structure he uses to indicate the process by which the Colonies have tried many times to solve their issues, emphasizing the drama with the verbs to remind his audience that the Colonies have gotten any result.