Question

Please help, medal. What rhetorical device does Thomas Jefferson most notably use in this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, and why does he use it?
"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the established of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended

Answer 1

in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representative in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

Answer 2

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures

A) Repetition to drive home the number of injustices and usurpations enacted by the British king, and the worthiness of the American cause of Independence.

B) Metaphor to effectively liken the British king's rule to that of a despot.

C) Alliteration to capture the reader's fancy.

D) Paradox to express a truth that's otherwise difficult to express.

Answer 3

ANYONE PLEASE HELP

Answer 4

Is it C or D

Answer 5

im thinking its A.)

Answer 6

True that makes sense, thanks so much

Answer 7

yep no prob