Declaration of Independence

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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

-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 list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
To let people no that it is important and has a meaning.

2. Why do they make it personal?
Its just how they did it so that that one person stands out.

3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
They change how they wrote it out so that there are parts that stand out more than others.Also there's parts that mean more then the others. For example: He has....

4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
When it talks about the King of Great Britain "He has...." they use it to show the one person standing out!

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.? Why?
"We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. " This is says we all need to learn to get along and live with one another as it would be the right thing to do!