Read the excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" by
Sojourner Truth.
That man over there says that women need to be
helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to
have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps
me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me
any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look
at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered
into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a
woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a
man-when I could get it-and bear the lash as well!
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children,
and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried
out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me!
And ain't I a woman?
Which rhetorical techniques does the speaker use in
this excerpt? Select three options.
ethos
Oshift
Opathos
parallelism
understatement