Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
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 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.
What is the effect of the repetition of “your”?
It reminds the reader of the speaker’s identity.
It reinforces the speaker’s feeling of separation.
It suggests a dialogue between speaker and audience.
It indicates that the speaker is addressing a large crowd.
