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?

Douglass uses parallelism in order to make his speech more attracting and influencing for the people. Parallelism is also known as parallel structure of a sentence. Parallelism provides a phrase with balance as well as also give phrases a pattern and rhythm. This rhythm makes the structure of the sentence fascinating and the audiences enjoys such type of structure of a sentence

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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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