Compare And Contrast Ain T I A Woman And The Gettysburg Address

The two speeches Ain’t I a Woman by Sojourner Truth and the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln were both similar because they were powerful speeches for equality. The two speeches were different because of their speakers, Truth and Lincoln were on completely different spectrums of the social scale and therefore seen differently by the public. Ain’t I a Woman by Sojourner Truth was a speech on equality of the sexes. Her speech was extemporaneous, and still had such an effect. She had a power in her words, and used rhetorical devices such as anaphoras, metaphors, and rhetorical questions. Her speech ensured that if women put their minds to something as a whole, they could definitely achieve it. Her speech included allusions to the Bible,