Question

What rhetorical effect does the personification of the word prudence have in the following expert from the declaration of independence?

Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shewn the mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed
A. It ironically appeals to the religious sentiments of the audience
B. It sarcastically criticizes the colonists desire to form a new government

Answer 1

C.it directly emphasizes an appeal to the readers emotions
D.it effectively enhances the logos and ethos of the argument

Answer 2

That's a really long run on sentence... Anyway, I think it's C.