Rhetorical Appeals In Jefferson And Paine

Jefferson and Paine use of Rhetorical Appeals In The Declaration Of Independence and The American Crisis, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine use certain appeals to achieve their purposes which is to inform their intended audiences about the importance of the situations that they are expressing. These authors appeal to their audiences by using their own reasoning, personal experiences, presenting themselves as good characters, using facts, details, and emotional experiences as well. Thomas and Paine both try to be persuasive to their audiences and they do so by trying to attract the attention of the readers. The main tools that Thomas Jefferson uses throughout The Declaration Of Independence is logic and reasoning. He attempts to reach out to the world as his audience by using religion to draw the attention of the religious people by describing how God intends for things to be and how things are supposed to be compared to
He appeals to the audience this way so that his readers get a feeling as if they are experiencing the anger and annoyance themselves, just as the people of America are. Another way that Jefferson tries to appeal to his audience is by sharing with his audience experiences that he, as well as others, have gone through. His purpose for this is to gain the trust of his audience and show just what type of character he is. By doing this, his intention is to show the audience that the people of America ate the "representatives of the United States", and that it is not King George who represents what the people of America want. His reasoning for using these appeals with his audience to show whose choice it is to make decisions and who it is being affected when being under the control of another