Rhetoric
Rhetoric Midterm

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Subject:   Mid-Term Q & A
Name:   Pat Hamilton
Date Posted:   Oct 22, 07 - 1:59 PM
Email:   nixnarld@netzero.net
Message:   (QUESTION) Considering the three main types of Aristotelian rhetoric, what would you consider to be the foremost style of Frederick Douglas' speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

(ANSWER) Though audience expected to hear a celebratory speech praising the birth of their nation, Douglas turns the expectations for epideictic praise into awkward silences with his epideictic accusations.
He uses a combination of epideictic (to shame his audience for their lack of action and the history of slavery in their country) and deliberative speech (to exhort his abolitionist audience into increased and more effective action), though the speech possesses, by far, more of an accusatory (epideictic) tone.
   


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