Read the passage. excerpt from "what to the slave is the fourth of july? " by frederick douglass what, to the american slave, is your 4th of july? i a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. to him, 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 denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and , 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. there is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these united states, at this very hour. refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this speech. which statement best describes how douglass uses hypophora in this excerpt? to present a list of activities that typically occur during the celebration of america’s birthday to appeal to his audience’s emotions on the anniversary of america’s independence to highlight the hypocrisy of celebrating freedom when slavery is still practiced in america to introduce his main argument and present evidence in support of his claim

to highlight the hypocrisy of celebrating freedom when slavery is still practiced in America

Hypophora is when an author asks a question and then immediately answers it. Often the question serves as a way in to the topic of the writing. In this case, Douglass asks about celebrating the day in which America became free. Given that not everyone in America is free, he questions the reasons for celebrating.

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.

  plan: i will begin with a quotation about the importance of unity in a community. then, i will state my claim that an activity will unite our school by creating a shared vision, purpose, and direction. in the body, i will use three main points that describe the different avenues the students can take: through a variety of clubs, through a special event, or through an awareness week. i will provide evidence about other towns that have unity activities and the kinds of events that they include. pictures will illustrate my three main points in action. for the ending, i will restate the main idea in a new way and pose a question to keep the audience thinking.