Wendell Phillips Rhetorical Devices In The 1861 Speech

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In the 1861 speech by Wendell Phillips, he describes the Haitian general Toussaint Louverture, as a hero and a martyr. Phillips is giving the speech to a group of Abolotionists who very clearly support Phillips and Louverture. In his speech, he uses rhetorical devices such as the repitition of historical allusions and parallel sentence structure to emphasize his thoughts on Louverture. In the first line of the speech, Phillips references Napoleon and goes on to mention people thought to be American heroes such as Oliver Cromwell and George Washington. His speech speaks very highly of them, and towards the end of the first paragraph he introduces Louverture as one belonging to their category. Phillips says, towards the end of his speech “I

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