Freedom or Death - or Death? In the passages “Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” and “Freedom or Death” each author uses rhetorical devices and examples to make their claims that women should have the right to vote. In the first passage “Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” Susan B. Anthony supports her claim of women having the right to vote by using the rhetorical device logos. She uses this by stating, “I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's right, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution.” This piece of evidence uses logos and implies that she has not committed any crime, and instead shows the reader that she just exercised her alienable citizens right to vote in the election and she has done no wrong. Susan B. Anthony also backs up her claim by using the Declaration of Independence to her advantage. The reader can see this when Susan says, “the constitutions of the several …show more content…
We see this when she says, “in England it has passed beyond the realm of advocacy, and it has entered the sphere of practical politics. It has become the subject of revolution and civil war.” This piece of evidence shows that the inequality between men and women has gone further and become a bigger problem than it ever had to be. Emmeline also uses metaphors to help support her argument. In the passage Emmeline states, “I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain.” She uses this metaphor to show that she has been fighting this battle for women's rights in the field as a soldier for too long and she must decide to leave the battlefield and to bring light to this battle that women had been fighting so long, just so that they could legally