The only question left to be settled now is: are women persons? i scarcely believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. susan b. anthony, "speech after being convicted of voting"
in the excerpt, what element of a strong argument does susan b. anthony use?
a. a rhetorical question
b. a complex equation
c .a statement of purpose
d .a complicated analogy

A. A rhetorical question

Explanation:

A rhetorical question is a question that an author asks that does not really require an answer because the answer is implied by the context within which it appears.  Thus, it is used for emphasis of a point, not to seek an answer.  That said, when Susan B. Anthony asks “Are women persons?” what she means is that, yes, women are persons, and by asking this question rhetorically, the answer is, thus, stressed.

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answer: from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people

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