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Patrick Henry’s speech, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” delivered on March 23, 1775 at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. Henry used literary devices including allusions, ethos, logos, pathos, rhetorical shift, and rhetorical structure to catch the audience's attention and emotion.