1.how does black hawk’s rhetoric in this excerpt advance his viewpoint that in order to save their own culture, indians must defeat the white men?

we told them to let us alone; but they followed on and beset our paths, and they coiled themselves among us like the snake. they poisoned us by their touch. we were not safe. we lived in danger. we were becoming like them, hypocrites and liars, adulterers, lazy drones, all talkers, and no workers.

a. he uses a source to demonstrate how native americans are different than white people.

b. he uses figurative language to convey the idea that white people morally corrupt native americans.

c. he uses imagery to reveal the thoughts and feelings of the native americans.

d. he uses a direct address to emphasize his point that white people are evil by nature.

2.read this excerpt from paragraph 4 of the speech.

things were growing worse. there were no deer in the forest. the opossum and beaver were fled; the springs were drying up, and our squaws and papooses without victuals to keep them from starving; . .

how does black hawk use rhetoric to advance his purpose in this excerpt?

a. he uses imagery of the deer, opossum, and beaver to show that the white men do not respect nature in the same way he does.

b. he directly addresses the white men to evoke a sense of responsibility for their actions toward his people.

c. he directly addresses his nation to explain that even though he is surrendering, he understands their plight.

d. he uses imagery of a barren forest and hungry women and children to show how the white men mistreated his nation.