The Author uses rhetoric, to basically force the reader to agree with the statements. In "Give me liberty..." he asks a lot of rhetorical questions, pertaining to what they should do in reguards to the king. Some of the questions he asks are, "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation", with this question it causes the reaser to side with the author, in the sense that you feel like him, and his fellow colonists, have done everything in their power in order to please the king, though it is not enough. Another question asks, "Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying suppinely on our backs..." This makes it seem as if the only option that Patrick Henry sees other than seperation, would be, to be completely