Rhetorical Analysis: What Strategies Did Truth Use To Appeal To Her Audience

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What strategies did Truth use to appeal to her audience? Truth gave her speech at a women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. Her speech focused on the limited rights of women and colored people. She wants them to have equal rights as white men do. Her speech was directed towards colored and non-colored people. Truth uses various rhetorical strategies throughout her speech to appeal to her audience such as simile and logos. Truth uses logos to appeal to her audience. For example, in the story Truth says, "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?" This example shows that Truth wasn’t being treated fairly. This is important because she thinks that women should