The language Margaret Fuller Ossoli uses in her essay, "Fourth of July," is written with great pathos. In writing her essay, Ossoli purposes to wake up Americans and let them know that America is a great country and the men that dwell there in should try there best to better the country rather than not keep it safe. Ossoli also addresses America's slavish materialism and throughout her speech proposes many remedies. Ossoli uses a vast amount of language strategies, such as imagery, personification, repetition and rhetorical questions to help her establish/achieve her purpose. The third and fourth paragraphs in Ossoli's essay work together to establish pathos by wanting the audience to feel ashamed for what has happened to America over the years. In making an appeal to pathos, introduces facts on how America has changed over the years. She mentions how America was once "rich and strong" (para. 3), but over the years, due to how its dwellers have treated it, America has "tarnished" (para. 3). Ossoli uses these facts to show Americans that it is sad for those who are able to pronounce "my country" with pride when they witness that America is not how it once was before. This again makes the audience feel ashamed for what they have let America become. After Ossoli changes the audience's emotions, she uses a series of different language strategies to help her achieve her purpose by personifying America to make it seem like America is another human being like the men living on it. Throughout her essay Ossoli repeats the words "she has shown," "she expressed," "she knows," "she feels," in order to personify America as a human being. She gives America a human like image so that it helps her connect America to her audience in a physical form, rather than them just reading her words from a piece of paper. Ossoli also uses repetition with the word "she" and follows it up with action verbs such as "expressed," "knows", "feels," e