To [the American slave], your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass–fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. –Frederick DouglassWhy does Douglass use parallelism?
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Fredrick Douglass was an Afro-American social activist. He always fought to build a better society for the blacks in the United States of America. Being a black himself he had experienced a lot of bad things in his life. That's why he decided to be a dedicated reformer
In this famous speech of his, he is mocking the hollow glamour and goodness of the American society. He has used parallelism to put emphasis on how unequal the society is for blacks and others.
In this famous speech of his, he is mocking the hollow glamour and goodness of the American society. He has used parallelism to put emphasis on how unequal the society is for blacks and others.
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Answer:to intensify the point of the celebration
to emphasize enslaved people’s lack of liberty
to contrast free people and enslaved people
to accuse free Americans of dishonesty
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