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?

In order to make the speech more attracting.

Explanation:

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

i took very good i wish you luck! i hope it .

well, i can't read it so i'll ask you questions about it : )

if you were a reader and you read the introduction, would you want to read more?

does it start with a question? if so, is it something you would want to read about?

and ask any friends or family for their opinion : )