Allusions
Diction
Ethos, pathos or logos
Rhetorical Questions
Sections
100

Songstress that lures unwitting sailor to their deaths.

What is a Siren

100

Complete destruction 

What is annihilation

100

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

Pathos

100

Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?

This question points out the . . .

Incongruity 

100

Section I is the 

What is the Introduction

200

In section III of the Declaration of Independence Jefferson refers to hired mercenaries who were called

Hessians

200

To ruin or destroy

What is ravage

200

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

Logos

200

Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?

What is why is Great Britain occupying our colonies.

200

Section II

What is the preamble

300

Henry says if the colonists do nothing, then they are as if they have eyes but cannot see and ears that cannot hear to illustrate that their inaction will 

What is anger God

300

To steal

Plunder

300

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

Logos

300

And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument?

What is this question pointing out.

What is we have tried everything

300

Section III

What are grievances 

400

This majestic figure was deceived and handed over to the authorities when he was . . .

What is betrayed with a kiss.

400

Magnanimity 

kindness, generosity

400

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

Logos and pathos

400

Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?

What is, should we give up and beg.

400

Section IV

What is colonists attempts to work with Great Britain

500

When the Founding Fathers were working on the Declaration Washington's chair had a sun on it. Benjamin Franklin believed the sun was 

What is rising.

500

Violent political or social upheaval

Convulsion

500

No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House.

ethos

500

What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted?

What is we have tried everything.

500

Section V

What is the conclusion