Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV. "Howe is now weaker than before, and every shot will contribute to reduce him. You are more immediately interested than any other part of the continent: your all is at stake; it is not so with the general cause; you are devoted by the enemy to plunder and destruction: it is the encouragement which Howe, the chief of plunderers, has promised his army." Why is the repetition of "you" in this sentence an effective rhetorical technique?

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Litzy Ballard

7 January, 17:26

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Lamont Collins · Answer 1

The answer is "It reminds readers that they each have a personal interest in America’s success in the war."