Speech to the Virginia Convention Interpretation
Patrick Henry Speech How did one guy manage to rally up a colony to go fight a war against an entire country thousands of miles away? Patrick Henry manages to do this in his famous Speech to the Virginia Convention. Henry’s point was made in his famous speech using many literary devices. He moved people by stating different facts that anyone in the convention would know about and used them to get the people motivated enough to start the war. ... Patrick Henry also used a lot of pathos in his speech to the Virginia convention.