Rhetorical Analysis OfHold On, Pain Ends - 812 Words

first-born son. However, as Du Bois recalls, every time when he glances at his son’s gold hair and blue eyes, he would think about the Veil that prevents him and perhaps other Negroes from acknowledging who they are and how their souls are as precious as those of the white’s are. Du Bois’s manipulative sentence composition engages the readers to fully understand his position: hope does exist because the birth of new lives will inherit the black soul, but hope is unhopeful because what they are going to face is the endless and hopeless striving with the destiny that has trammeled them in the darkest corner in the world for years. So unpredictable is destiny that no one is convinced of the truth of â€Å"Hold On, Pain Ends.† Rhetorical Devices†¦show more content†¦Du Bois gives an instruction that the black race should struggle to free themselves from the haze of the past and the present, and seek a brighter prospect by cooperating with white neighbors, which also reinforces the fact that unity is crucial to eliminate the color line. The apophasis he adds here has a thematic effect, calling attention to the importance of, not only education as he discusses in this whole chapter, but also the will to tear asunder the Veil that binds the striving spirit of black folk. Metonymy At the end of Chapter 12, Du Bois writes, â€Å"I wonder if in that dim world beyond, as he came gliding in, there rose on some wan throne a King, — a dark and pierced Jew, who knows the writhings of the earthly damned, saying, as he laid those heart-wrung talents down, ‘Well done!’ while round about the morning stars sat singing†(385). Du Bois predicts Alexander Crummell’s death in a style that expresses his unique, desolate romanticism. He portrays an image of a King, a leader of the black folk, who slowly slides in â€Å"that dim world beyond† the humiliation where he bears his stigma, and discusses the pride he has accomplished and reclaimed for himself and his fellow folks by resisting his wrongly defined destiny. â€Å"Rose on some wan† indicates that Crummell’s striving is only recognized by negligible men or by someone who is the only one being able to