🤧🤧Declaration of Independence🤧🤧
What appeals to emotion are in the quote: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing in variably 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 the future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies and such is now the necessary which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of the Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute turning over these states."
" it is their right" "it is their duty" "provide new guards for the future security" "patient sufferance of these colony" "an absolute turning over these states"
What were the exact words Jefferson had written , talking about the duty of a person living under such government?
"...it is the 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 as now the necessary which constrains them to alter their former systems of government"
Which kind of appeal is represented by Jefferson's organized list of grievances?
Appeals to emotion or Pathos
What appeal to emotion does Jefferson used in the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence?
By asserting that " a decent respect to the opinions of mankind" requires that the text enumerate the complaints of the colonists.
Jefferson wrote this document during the Age of Reason, an era characterized by logic and scientific mythology. How does the Declaration of Independence reflect Jefferson's faith in reason?
He mentions the laws of nature. He states that all men are created equal and that they're endowed with unalienable rights and that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. These are principles that could be derived by reason alone. They're foreign to the ways of tradition which believed in the divine right of kings, aristocracy, and a Christian God, not a god of nature.
According to Jefferson, what is the people's Duty when their government is abusive?
They have the right to throw the government and make a new one that provides safety.
Why is Jefferson's used of appeal to emotion an important technique?
its a way for him to not just call his reader's sense of logic, that such separation is reasonable and therefore right, but also emotions.
What did Jefferson used, reasoning and elaborating the King's " repeated injuries "
syntax and repetition
