Read these sentences from the excerpt: I would sometimes say to them, I wished I could be as free as they would be when they got to be men. "You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

How does Douglass best use rhetoric to advance his purpose in this excerpt?

He uses a rhetorical question to heavily emphasize the fact that he deserves freedom.

He uses a rhetorical question because he is unsure of his beliefs.

He repeats words in order to share his beliefs with the readers.

He repeats the word free to show the reader his point.

A)  He uses a rhetorical question to heavily emphasize the fact that he deserves freedom.

Explanation:

Rhetorical questions refer to questions asked to establish a dramatic effect or present a side/perspective rather than get a response. In the given excerpt, the speaker used a rhetorical question to highlight his belief that he ACTUALLY deserves freedom. He is not unsure of the idea, rather, he is emphasizing that he deserves it because freedom is supposed to be a right, not a choice.

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

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