The passage below comes from Lyndon Baines Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech. Johnson uses the rhetorical choice of a list. What is the purpose of using this list?
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexingto
and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox So it was last week in Salma, Alabama There, long-suffering men and women peacefully
protested the denial of their rights as Americans. Many were brutally assaulted. One good man, a mah of God, was killed