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Of Beauty and Death
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What rhetorical structure does Du Bois use to open 'Of Beauty and Death'?
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A straightforward historical timeline of lynching statistics
B
A formal debate transcript from a university lecture
C
A series of letters exchanged with his own students
D
A dialogue with a 'pale and positive' friend who calls him 'too sensitive,' which he answers by cataloguing the daily indignities—refused service, hostile stares, closed doors—that provoke his 'sensitivity'
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