Patrick Henry Describing in Literary terms about the speech given at the "The Virginia Convention" by Patrick Henry.
Title: Patrick Henry Describing in Literary terms about the speech given at the "The Virginia Convention" by Patrick Henry.
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 680 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Patrick Henry Describing in Literary terms about the speech given at the "The Virginia Convention" by Patrick Henry.
Category: /Literature
Details: Words: 680 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
In the speech "The Virginia Convention" Patrick Henry set out to convince the Virginia delegates that the war with England is inevitable, the longer they wait the harder to win the war and that the war had already started. The author uses repetition, rhetorical questions, and facts to allow the speech to be more effective, interesting, and strong.
Repetition is one of the stronger designs that Patrick uses to help stress the importance of taking …showed first 75 words of 680 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 680 total…they believe, what they want, and what they have dreamed of for so long. Henry makes the point that the "war has already begun" and there is nothing they can do but ignore it or join it; what do they want, liberty, peace, justice for what they have worked so hard all of their lives? All Patrick Henry wants is liberty and he will die fighting for it, "Give me liberty or give me death!"