Question

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 Douglass Why does Douglass use parallelism?

Answer 1

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

Explanation:

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Answer 2

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

Explanation: