... to the criticism against his relationship to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and also uses this as a basis for pinpointing America's current issues, using several rhetorical devices, especially antithesis, to emphasize his arguments. In the text of the speech, we can see many times throughout that Obama relies and imposes his ... within her the blood of slaves and slave-owners" (240). Both of these phrases stand out in the text because Obama used a rhetorical device known as antithesis, which means that within each phrase they contain ideas that are opposite to each other, seen in black man and...

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• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate