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

The Devil and Tom Walker

Tom Walker lived near Boston, Massachusetts. He was in a bad marriage. He and his wife didn't like to spend time with each other. The wife had a fierce temper and was loud. There is a story about Kidd the pirate who buried treasure under a big tree in the swamps. Tom decided he would go look for it and when he did He found a skull and a tamohawk a little under the ground. Tom picked it up and a large black man sitting on a tree stump told him to put it down. The black man offered the treasure to Tom, but he decided not to take it and went home. He told his wife about the man and the treasure. She gathered some stuff and went into the forest. She came back after a while and gathered more things and went back. She never returned and after a few days, Tom went to look for her. He saw her apron in a tree. Inside the apron were her heart and liver. The black man offered the treasure to Tom again as a deal with the devil, but Tom had to do something in return for the treasure. He must become a usherer in the town and charge high interest. There were 3 knocks on his door at work and it was the black man. He grabbed him from his horse and they rode off to the swamps..

The Masque of Red Death

The prince was trying to avoid the plaque. They were at the ballroom having a good time and than the prince realized a strange Dark character. He had one of his men go over and ask the man with the weird appearance to take a hike.Well that was the wrong thing to do In the story a man with a Mask kills everyone and the clocks of Abbey stop clicking.

Danse macabre

The big bug behind the door. In this book it really focuses on the suspense and when it leads up to the suspense wheather your ready or not it will scare you. Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.
Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

The Raven

The Raven is a poem by Edgar Allen Poe that tells a story about a man that is grieving over his lost love. A raven appears and sits in his room, speaking only "nevermore." The Raven also makes Lenore very said because she realizes she will be alone forever...

The fall of the house of usher

The narrator goes to the house of Usher to visit an old friend. It is a big house and only the friend and his sister live there. They are the last of the Ushers and are both quite sick. The house seems to be dying with the family. Roderick gets nervous about everything and his senses are all extreme. He can't listen to anything but string interments, or eat anything but bland foods. His sister has spells where she looks like she is dead. She will go into a coma like stage and nobody really knows if she is alive or dead. While the friend is visiting Roderick buries his sister alive on purpose. He wants the family to be gone and everything to be destroyed.