THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY
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repetition
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parallelism
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alliteration
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assonance
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jefferson uses rhetorical devices like parallelism and repetition to explain the reasonings of the Colonists decision to break their bonds with the King and Britain.
Detailed explanation-2: -An example of parallelism in the Declaration of Independence is the use of “we have, ” then a past tense verb, such as “We have Petitioned, ” and “ we have conjured.” Thomas Jefferson (the writer of the Declaration) uses personification to show Britain’s neglect of the colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -In using this technique Jefferson enumerates to illustrate the patience of an oppressed people. The declaration comes out as a careful meditation and decisions of exceptionally calm people while the document comes out persuasively and convincing to the reader.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson, he uses three of the major rhetorical techniques of persuasion such as: pathos, which is the appeal to emotion, logos, the appeal to logic, and ethos, the appeal to ethics.