To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and , with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. what is the effect of the repetition of “your”? it reminds the reader of the speaker’s identity. it reinforces the speaker’s feeling of separation. it suggests a dialogue between speaker and audience. it indicates that the speaker is addressing a large crowd.