Read the excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth. That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Which rhetorical techniques does the speaker use in this excerpt? Select three options. ethos shift pathos parallelism understatement
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Here the author is expressing his grief and sufferings that he has suffered all his life in a sarcastic language.He says that the people and the god both support women in their sufferings and express them as a weaker gender but even a man suffers so much all his life.In old age even he needs love and care but his sacrifice is not taken seriously because he is a man.His hands are wounded and paining due to field work.He was poor that he had to sell his kids as slaves.But no one shed a tear on his pain because he is a man and men are not considered as a weaker gender but they are considered strong and it is believed that men don't cry.But in reality even the men have emotions and they also cry.Just that they don't express their pain so openly but they are not robots even men have feelings and they are sensitive.