Phillip Freneau's poem “American Liberty,” the speaker describes being “slaves and minions to a parliament.” What is the intended meaning of this hyperbole?
He used emotionally charged language- also known as loaded language to emphasise on the fact that their liberty was being taken away by this "parliament".
C) The speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the British government.
Explanation:
Phillip Freneau's poem description as ''slaves and minions to a parliament'', means that they were not free at all, just robots that did what the parliament wanted and also mistreated, but some of them didn't realise that.
