Read the passage.
excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. 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 denunciations 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. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this speech.
Which statement best describes how Douglass uses hypophora in this excerpt?
to present a list of activities that typically occur during the celebration of America’s birthday
to appeal to his audience’s emotions on the anniversary of America’s independence
to highlight the hypocrisy of celebrating freedom when slavery is still practiced in America
to introduce his main argument and present evidence in support of his claim
