what are the three main arguments in Patrick Henry's speech?

Question

what are three main arguments in Patrick Henrys speech Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death?

Answer 1

Patrick Henry's famous speech persuading his fellow Americans to stand up and fight for their freedom is littered with persuasion techniques and closed arguments. Using figurative language, lots of parallel structure, repetition that goes hand in hand with parallel structure, and periodic sentences. Figurative language, the heart and soul of Henry's argument, the very tool that makes the British look so tyrannical, is the most often used mode of persuasion in Henry's speech. Henry accuses the English of "cover our waters and darken our land." The darkening of the land is a use of figurative language to provide a premonition and an allusion to the return of the "Dark Ages", something that "enlightened" Americans don't want. Also, Henry's most famous use of figurative language, "Give me liberty or give me death!" at which the word death, Henry fakes suicide. In such a powerful combination of drama and words, Henry urges is his fellow Americans to do what he vowed to do, to sacrifice one's life for the fight of liberty.
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