INTERESTING RHETORICAL DEVICES

The right of African American is an essential subject for many texts in any historical time period. Malcolm X and Danzy Senna both pick the discrimination of African American as their main point for their essays. In The Mulatto and Millenium, Danzy Senna tells her own stories about how she grows up as a black girl with a Wasp mother and a black-Mexican father. In another hand, From The Ballot or the Bullet is a speech of Malcolm to persuade African American to group together regardless religion to fight for their human right. Although From the Ballot or the Bullet (Malcolm X) and The Mulatto Millennium (Danzy Senna) share the same main idea and some rhetorical devices, each of them has some unique devices that make their essays more interesting and influenced.
Although Malcolm X and Danzy Senna have a lot of troubles because they are African American, both authors use very strong sentences and phrases to emphasize that they’re proud of their own identities. In The Mulatto Millennium, she affirms that “Black is beautiful”. She also insists that she chooses to be a Black American. Through these words, she wants says to all audiences that she’s proud of her identity. Her parents teach her that there’s nothing to be shame about their identities. They raise her as a Black American. Black or white, Mulatto or Caucasian does not define who you are but what you do for the society define it. Furthermore, she puts these words in italics which mean that they’re her main point in writing this essay. She hopes that everybody will understand her massage under these words. Similarily, Malcolm X keep repeating the phrase “I am not….” in the first paragraphs. He also says that “I’m one of the 22 million black people…” He infers that he does not t...

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...o their efforts. Black Americans who are audiences of the speech of Malcolm X will relate what he said to their own life. His point is change the view of Black Americans that they should be treated equally to White Americans. We are born in the same way and we can’t choose our identities so why we are treated differently just because our identities?
In either case, rhetorical devices are used successfully in these texts. They build a strong argument about the right of Black American which motivates the movement of Black Americans to fight for their voting right and Civil rights. Recently, Barrack Obama is the president of the United States. He’s an African American but everyone has to recognize his talent in leading a country. If there was not Black American movement in the United States, who could believe that a Black American was the president of the States?