History

Trent Porter

11 July, 00:45

Read this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence:

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolution, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the underlined portion of the text?

A.) Ethos

B.) Deductive logic

C.) Pathos

D.) Inductive logic