Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention"

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience."

• Metaphor

• Hypophora

• Parallel Structure

• Allusion

"We must fight! --I repeat it, sir, we must fight"

• Juxtaposition

• Allusion

• Kairos

• Rhetorical Question

"The next gale (storm) that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!"

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Ethos

"The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty are invincible by any force which our enemy sends against us!"

• Logos

• Allusion

• Rhetorical Quetsion

• Repetition

"[Great Britain's ships] are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British military have so long been forging."

• Juxtaposition

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Kairos

"Mr. President, no man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very noble gentlemen who have just addressed the House."

• Ethos

• Kairos

• Metaphor

• Logos

"For my own part, I consider it nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery."

• Allusion

• Hypophora

• Ethos

• Juxtaposition

"Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No sir, she has none."

• Rhetorical Questions

• Hypophora

• Metaphor

• Kairos

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts."

• Kairos

• Allusion

• Parallel Structure

• Repetition

"I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it."

• Parallel Structure

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical Question