ASSIGNMENT: After reading (and re-reading! "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass (Page 289), answer the follow questions thoroughly. Use complete sentences and -- where
indicated -- direct or indirect quotes from the speech.
1. What is a rhetorical question?
2. Quote two places in the speech where a series of rhetorical questions are asked.
3. What is a counterclaim?
4. Quote an example of a counterclaim in the speech.
5. How does Douglass answer your example of counterclaim?
6. What is parallelism?
7. Quote two places where Douglass uses parallelisms.
8. What is the type of parallelism called where you repeat a word or phrase at the beginning of successive
sentences?
9. What is evidence?
10. Quote an example of Douglass using evidence to support his claims.