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"truth, and fulfill the great responsibility"

The effect this has on the audience is that he is showing them that they have a higher purpose then what they think they have. he is trying to show them that they need to protect this country from the British.

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"Is this part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?"

He is questioning why the colonists keep engaging with the British if we are smart and know we shouldn't

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"war and subjugation"
"submission" "motive"
"accumulation of navies and armies"

They are trying to use words to persuade the people into war.

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"freedom or slavery"
He is using these two items to get an image in peoples heads about what it might be like if they do not do something for their country. He uses freedom or slavery to show two big things in this world. He is asking them which would they prefer. Do you want to have your freedoms in culture, what you say, how you live or do you want to do what others tell you? So that way they will join along with him and his plan and opinion.

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"Are fleets and armies necessary to work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?"

Britain is trying to use force to get them to come back to them even though they've said what they want.

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"Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land."

They're trying to be kind and gentle, but Britain just keeps using force.

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Paragraph 3: Allusion to Christian New Testament

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Paragraph 3: Allusion to Christian New Testament

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"Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss."

Britain is pretending to listen and care but they're just hurting them.

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"Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet."

If they keep trusting Britain, they'll be trapped.

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"Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?"

They’re not going through with what they’re saying/lying to them.

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"Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves."

Patrick Henry is calling the Virginia Convention experts, but he is saying that these experts should know what is to happen next.

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"I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past."

He can’t tell what will happen, but he can say what has happened.

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"we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!"

The throne has rejected them with the thought that they are under them and worthless in all circumstances. He brings this up as to further rile them up for the cause.

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"Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest."
-Even if we held a vote it would still fall through because no-one truly desires it and no one would stand up for it.

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"Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded"

Patrick Henry says this to reverberate the fact that the crown has ignored and even bullied the colonies for their efforts in this movement, and all in the hopes of spurring them up to get ready to fight for their freedom.

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Paragraph , Allusion to Homer's Odyssey 

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"listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts"

If we keep listening to the Britains the colonists will be dehumanized by them.

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Group 1: Paragraph 1 Appeal to ethos (morals)

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Group 1: Paragraph 1 Appeal to ethos (morals)

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"guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty Of Heaven, which I never above all earthly kings"

The effect it has on the audience is a  religious one. by saying that he would be dishonoring god he is saying that giving up his freedom to the British then he is not doing god justice

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"Nothing."

The quote is just adding emphasis to the fact that all has been done, There is no other option.

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"Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country"

Patrick Henry is trying to appeal to the more patriotic and wisdom side of these men. He is trying to use their emotions to control how they feel about what he is saying to them.

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"have implored its interposition to arrest the tyranical hands of the ministry and Parliament."

They as colonies have begged the crown to arrest the "tyranical hands of the ministry and Parliament", however to no ado, seeing as they just did with their demands as all the others, ignored them.

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"illusions of hope"

Henry is telling the colonists they need to having a false hope and face reality

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Paragraph 4: "let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come." (Repetition)

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Paragraph 4: "let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come." (Repetition)

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Henry repeats these words to show that he is ready, prepared, and that he is confident in his people to win this battle.

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"Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject?"

The quote affects the Virginia Convention by showing giving an example of what has already been done.

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"If so wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending..."

Explaining what they need to do to get what they wish for.

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"I know not what course others may take: but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

He doesn't know what others think or want but he knows he wants peace and liberty but if he can't have that then he wants nothing at all.

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" Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?"

- Henry is creating this image of people actually lying on their back while being tied hands to feet.

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"we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!"

To get the audience to stand up for themselves

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"Why stand we here idle? What is that gentlemen wish" what would they have ? is life so dear, or price of chains and slavery?
Meaning- They stand by god through all of this, nothing can be bought without a certain price. He is asking them what there opinion is, asking them to show him what they believe.

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Paragraph 4: "Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!" (Allusion to Current Event)

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Paragraph 4: "Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!" (Allusion to Current Event)

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Henry used this allusion as an example of another time there was a disagreement that led to bigger events. (Boston Tea Party)

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"And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument?"

This quote asks an obvious question seeing how argument has already been used and does not work.

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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."

Experience is guiding him like how a lamp guides you in the dark.

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"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne"

Patrick Henry says this to bring how much they've done in this effort to the attention of the delegates in attendance, to hopefully unify them in the cause of freedom from the crown.

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"Forbid it, Almighty God!"

Asking god to stop something bad happening.

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"noble struggle"
"pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained"

They will not give up until they are free.

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" The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms"
Meaning- Using imagery to show that the war isn't going to be quiet when it comes.

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Paragraph 4, Appeal to pathos(Religion) "

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Paragraph 4, Appeal to pathos(Religion) "

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"Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle sir is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
-If we use what God gave us we have a chance in battle. And it is not only for the strong but also those who are mindful and truly aware of our situation.

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"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth"
We shut our eyes but it won't go away, we have to face the truth and fight back against Britain.

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Appeal to Ethos:
" No man thinks more highly than i do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House."

He is trying to gain their trust by saying this and also appealing to how all these men are intelligent . He does this so that way when he talks about something they may not all agree with there isn't chaos.

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"They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging."

The quote is saying that Britain is purposefully trying to oppress the American Colonies. Not only that, but they have been trying to oppress them for years now.

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Group 1: Paragraph 1 Appeal to ethos (credibility)

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Group 1: Paragraph 1 Appeal to ethos (credibility)

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"But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character
very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve"

The effect is that he showing the men that he is not scared what the men think and that he is gonna explain himself even if everyone disagrees with him.

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"The war is actually begun"
Meaning-To inform them and let them know the war has actually begun.

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"But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?"

- Henry is asking if they just want to give up and suffer or fight back. He wants these people to feel infuriated and have something to fight for.

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Paragraph 4: "Our chains are forged!" (Imagery)

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Paragraph 4: "Our chains are forged!" (Imagery)

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Henry is trying to get the audience to understand that the British is holding them back.