Question

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”?

Answer 1

The effect of the repetition of "your" It reinforces the speaker's feeling of separation.

Answer 2

The effect of the repetition of “your” is that it reinforces the speaker's feeling of separation.

Further Explanations:

4th of July was for the United States was the day of memorializing the “Declaration of Independence”. On this day it the Continental Congress declared that the 13 former American Colonies were no longer subjected to Britain's monarchy. Though the voting for the Independence was completed on 2nd July but was not made public till 4th July. The day is also celebrated as the national day in the United States.

In the extract, the author is repeatedly using the word “Yours” as he is trying to convey his feeling of separation. We can also expect that the author may be a slave and for them, independence was of no mean. Spite of the Independence of America, slavery was still prevalent in the southern part of the nation. They were treated in an inhuman manner. For them independence was just a mocking concern.  

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Answer Details

Grade: High school

Subject: US History

Chapter: Declaration of Independence

Keywords: Declaration of Independence, United States, Continental Congress, 13 former ,American Colonies, Britain's, monarchy, slave, inhuman manner, mocking concern.