Founding Brothers
Which of the following rhetorical techniques is most clearly being used in this passage?
Which of the following rhetorical techniques is most clearly being used in this passage?
- metaphor
- repetition
- rhetorical question
- allusion
Part B
Which sentence or phrase from the passage supports your answer?
- “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes”
- “Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.”
- “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism”
- “To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”