17 ixes 12 15 tro, chapters Please answer the following questions with at least
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17 ixes 12 15 tro, chapters Please answer the following questions with at least one 0 thoughtful, substantial and grammatically sound paragraph each. Make sure what you have to say differs from what other classmates have had to say 1) If rhetoric is the art of persuading your audience, what is the rhetorical purpose for Garrison's preface and Phillips's "letter" at the start of this book? 2) In what ways does Douglass describe slaves being dehumanized, treated as less than human? 3) How does Douglass write about learning to read, and what does he say about its importance in his life? Displaying 1 to 5Explanation / Answer
1. The interdiction texts in Narrative of Frederick Douglass are intended to convince the reader about the credibility of Douglas as the real author . The writing uses a strong rhetorical approach of persuading the audience through other writer’s or legit experts’s opnions about the Narrative at a time of slavery when most African-Americans were slaves and, as a result, illiterate. It would have been remarkable to the primary audience of literature, the educated white men, that a freed slave sucha as Douglas, could have written such an eloquent autobiography. Thus, Garrison, the author of the Preface, and Phillips, the author of the Letter, appeal to the mainstream ethos by praising the personal and moral characteristics of Douglas in order to build the authenticity of his writing.
However, the approach adopted by both these educated white men is highly affect laden in its construction of an ornamental language.
In the Preface, William Lloyd Garrison’s language shows an indignant tone that heightens and at times dramatizes Douglass’s hardships as a slave. In contrast, Phillip adopts a more subdued tone in his letter addressed to Douglas as a goodwill gesture for the success of his written but he too goes on to enumeratesa long list of positive characteristics that Douglass possesses. Thus, both the letter and the preface assume function of emphasising on the meritorious qualities of Douglas, the subaltern author in order to influences the readership in a positive light towards him.
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