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Rhetorical devices used in Patrick Henry's speech are:\

  • Allusion
  • Metaphors (Biblical and Mythological)
  • Many Rhetorical Questions
  • Appeal to Logic
  • Imagery
  • Emotion
  • Parallel Sent. Structure
  • Repetition

In his last and famous quote "Give me liberty oR give me death," he uses repetition and contrasting parallel word choices between liberty and death. Its either life to the fullest or death nothing in between. Two different meaning words in one quote.

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