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-This speech was delivered in 1775 by Patrick Henry.

-Patrick Henry could move his audience easily due to many literary techniques that he incorporated into his speeches.

-The time period, The American Revolution, also helped to make his speeches more effective.

-Due to the constant inferiority and diminishing acts received from Britain, the emotional crowd was an easy target because liberty and freedom were emotional subjects. This made it easy to bring out emotion and feeling in an audience.

-Along with striking emotion in an audience, Patrick Henry, tried to get everyone to rise to the occasion against Britain and become a new nation; a new nation with liberty.

-Liberty, at the time was a big deal, so everyone who came to this “New World” wanted freedom and a new opportunity. So, when someone would try to take that away, the colonists would fight for their freedom, thus making Henry’s speeches very moving and full of emotion. Henry could bring the men to arms.

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