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John Ball's speech to peasants - Analysis from Dennis Skinner (pt 2/2)
Dennis Skinner MP examines some of the rhetorical devices John Ball used in his famous sermon ‘When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?’. He discusses his use of patterns of threes, contrasting pairs, closing words and the personal pronoun ‘we’.
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