Decleration of Indepdence answers

List of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it? Becuase they want to make it personal and by saying he, The D.I is reffering to the people and they know that He means them.
2. Why do they make it personal? Because if someone breaks the law they can tell who did it because the law is clearly stated He.. so that the government can go strait to the D.I and see weather or not you broke the law.


3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change? They are directing the king so that he may change the laws because of all the injustice that he has caused.

4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece? It packs more than one thing in a sentence to get the point across and to show examples of what they were trying to explain. Its effective because the readers see what is the problem and they see multiple ways of how to fix it.

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.? 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. Why? This was made when slavery was still big in the US and the DI helped get rid of slavery.

Decleration of Indepdence defintions

The Declaration of Independence has four main parts:
* a preamble, or foreword, that announces the reason for the document
* a declaration of people's natural rights and relationship to government
* a long list of complaints against George III, the British king
* a conclusion that formally states America's independence


Helpful definitions:
unalienable: that may not be taken away

despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny

transient: passing away with time

usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else

conjured: appealed to

consanguinity: blood relationship

acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand

parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance

insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government