High School Reading Grades 9 10 Quiz
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From a fictional 1848 women's rights convention address:
"We are told that our petitions are untimely—that the nation is preoccupied with graver matters, that our patience must be a little longer. To this we reply: there has never been a convenient hour for justice, and there never will be. Those who benefit from a delay will always discover new reasons for delay. If we wait until we are invited to speak, we shall wait forever, for the invitation is precisely what the world refuses to send. We do not ask permission to be equal; we announce that we already are, and demand that the laws catch up to a truth older than any statute."
The speaker's rhetorical strategy is best described as
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