3.+Literary+Devices

Literary Devices ** Diction  **  1. "...a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires th at they should declare the causes which impel them to the ** //__separation __// **."
 * Separation represented the freedom they desired.

2. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created __//**equal**, //__ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">unalienable Rights, that among these are **//__<span style="font-size: 160%; color: #25b150; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Life, Liberty __//** and the pursuit of __//**<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #25b150; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Happiness **//__ ." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Images ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> 1. "He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records..." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. "He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good..." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **  La nguage  ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation's, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Equality, life, liberty, and happiness is what the colonists sought after their part from Britain.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">an image of uncomfortable men all together in abnormal places.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Details **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The King of Britain oppressed all the colonists and they were under control.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">It lists all the bad qualities the King had and how he was corrupting the colonists.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Jefferson used formal language because he wanted to grab the readers attention in order for the reader to understand his main point.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">his main point was to state all the Kings faults to make the Second Continental Congress see that these are the reasons we should separate from Britain and go by our own rules.

**<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Symbol **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">  The Declaration itself could be a symbol for the people's wish to be free from all the tyranny Great Britain forced them into. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes." <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **Overstatement** "...whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Metaphor/Image ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> 1. "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #25b150; font-family: Georgia, serif;">**eat out their**   <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 130%; color: #25b150; font-family: Georgia, serif;">substance ** ."
 * Personification **  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">      <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Prudence alone cannot actually dictate.
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">It gives human characteristics to prudence.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">They say it cannot be destroyed and it can.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Anything can be destroyed one way or another. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The substance cannot be literally eaten.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">It creates an image of people fighting and getting beaten.