Rhetorical+devices


 * **How did the Rhetorical Devices change //The Declaration of Independence // ? **

   "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." (¶ 1)
 * **Allusions ** :Is a short, informal reference to a famous person or event which adds to the proclamation because it makes it have more credibility.
 * 1) Founding Fathers
 * 2) Human Rights
 * 3) God
 * **Ethos: ** This changes the proclamation because it adds the author credibility which makes it more believable.

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." (¶ 2) "Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity" (¶ 31)

This adds the author's opinion so it makes this quote more believe because Jefferson was viewed as an important person. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;"> "He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation."(¶ 26)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">**Pathos**: //The Declaration of Independence// is changed by using pathos to get the peoples attention because ti relates to the peoples emotions.

This uses emotion because it is speaking about the armies and some of the problems that the soldiers and the aries go through.

"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, themerciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions." (¶ 28)

This uses the distinctions of the citizens and the indians which is emotional because the indians are in a bad conditions.

"A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." (¶ 29)

This appeals to the people because they don't want a tyrant as a ruler and they are going to agree with this statement. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." (¶ 2)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Logos **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">: Jefferson throughout //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The Declaration of Independence //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> uses logical reasoning to appeal to the citizens. This changes the proclamation because it is opening the citizens eyes about their rights and that they should stand up for theirs rights.

This quote explains that everybody has the same rights and they have the right to want to make it better. This is logos because uses logic be using the rights of the people to get their attention.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government." (¶ 2)

This quote shows that citizens have the right to stand up for their rights and that the people are the government and that they can do some changes to benefit them.

In //Th////e Declaration of Independence// there are three transitions. There is a transition as in an essay, from the introduction, to the body, and finally ending with the conclusion.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">**Rhetorical Shift**:

In the introduction Thomas Jefferson states the purpose of his essay without actually going into detail, leaving that to the later paragraphs.

In the body paragraphs he states all of the King's wrong doings, stating facts instead of using mainly his opinion.

The conlusion ties The Declaration together by finally stating why they chose to become independent from Great Britain and King George III.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;"> "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." (¶ 2)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Rhetorical Structure **: Jefferson argues that the King is not suited to rule the people and states that all men are given "unalienable rights," and he produces 27 offences that the king has committed.

Illusrates an argument that as a people we have rights that we are born with and die with, that no person or form of government can take away from us.

"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles are organizing its powers" (¶ 2).

This quote says that if a government is not meeting its requirements, those who are under its rule can revolt and rise against it and make a new government that will meet the people’s needs.