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Rhetorical Analysis Of Elizabeth Barret's Letter To The Emperor Napoleon II

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In the letter by Elizabeth Barret to the Emperor Napoleon II, to explains how Barret was personality the Emperor Napoleon II to pardon the exile Victor Hugo. Barret uses rhetorical strategies to persuade the Emperor to pardon Victor Hugo. First, Barret was really humble in her letter to Napoleon II. According to the letter, “I’m only a woman who have no claim on your majesty’s attention except that of the weakest on the strongest,” (paragraph 1). This quote explains how she is trying to be humble to persuade Napoleon to pardon Hugo from the exile. Second, Barret uses asyndeton to persuade the Emperor Napoleon II to pardon Hugo. According to the letter, “Ah sire, you are great enough! You can allow for the peculiarity of the poetical temperament,
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