Declaration of Independence

The list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
Show more emphasis, they are talking about the King of England.

2. Why do they make it personal?
It is a very personal matter. People were driven away from where they came from to the United States to recieve the rights and respect that Americans do.

3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
The declaration clearly shows that freedom is what the people wanted. They would have done anything to earn rights.

4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
Everything is clearly stated and is all in the same form. It makes it easier to get the full message from the piece.

parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.


5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
"He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."

People were being contained by the same law that they were trying to escape. They came from England to American to escape that law, but ended up finding the same senario.