Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech By Maria W. Stewart

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In 1832, a young African American woman, Maria W. Stewart, rose to address a Boston audience. In her lecture, Stewart uses her intellect and passion to call for equal rights for African American citizens. Her lecture employs brilliant rhetorical strategies to support her position. Stewart is successful in her passionately expressive calling for an end to African American discrimination through her use of diction and figurative language. In this excerpt from a lecture she delivered in Boston, Maria W. Stewart uses diction in order to shock her audience and reveal the true cruelties of slavery. When Stewart uses the words “death” and “chains” she appeals to the audience's emotions by creating a mournful tone. This is effective because it helps