Rhetoric In The Declaration Of Independence

Rough Draft Unfair tax laws, a massacre of multiple innocent civilians, and many other unlawful acts by the British forced the thirteen colonies no choice but to declare their independence and would go on to create the most powerful country in the world. The Declaration of Independence is what finally separated the colonies from England. It was written and signed on July 4, 1776. It is one of the most powerful pieces of literature ever and was one of the most iconic pieces in the Revolutionary time period and still is today. Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and wrote a simple Declaration but one of the most powerful pieces of literature. In “History.com Thomas Jefferson” it says, “In 1775, with the American …show more content…
Rhetorical writing is like having a conversation like it is a one on one conversation but you are speaking to a very large audience. In “What is Rhetoric? Dialogue and Debate in the Writings of the Revolution.”, it says, “In the period leading up to the Revolution, American seem to have enjoyed a sense that their letters, speeches, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and so forth, were all a form of conversation”. In the Revolutionary time people wanted to have the stuff they read sound like they were talking to them personally. George Washington was a person who used rhetoric writing very well in his speeches and writings. Being the First President of the United States would have been very difficult so he used rhetoric to grab the audience’s attention and make it sound like it was talking to you personally when he is addressing everyone in the audience. In the same article “What is Rhetoric? Dialogue and Debate in the Writings of the Revolution” it has a quote that says, “While this kind of direct engagement of one writer with another is one demonstration of the way printed discourse functioned as a kind of public conversation in the Revolutionary era, evidence of this way of thinking can also be found in the way writers (and speakers) directly addressed that larger audiences”. Using rhetoric in speaking and writing articles in the Revolutionary Literature was very important and the influence on it in today’s world is very great because people use it in the same way in newspapers, and speeches to grab someone in the audience’s attention and make it feel like they are having a one on one conversation when they are addressing the whole audience or everybody that is reading that article in that