The Declaration of Independence Quiz
"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury."
Ethos
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that government 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"
Ethos
"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"
Logos
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute depositism, it is their right is is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their social security."
Logos and Pathos
"For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments"
Logos and Pathos
"He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries."
Logos and Pathos
"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."
Pathos
"They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends."
Pathos
He has combined with others to subject us to jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us"
Pathos and Logos
Logos
Appeals to a readers sense of what is logical. It uses facts, evidence, and reason to persuade
Pathos
Appeals to the audiences emotions and feelings. Author will do whatever they can to make an emotional impact.
Ethos
Appeals to the audiences sense of ethical behavior of what is "right or wrong." The author will present themselves as a credible, trustworthy, and honest source