Analysis of the Rhetorical Devices used in the Revolutionary Era Speeches

During the beginning of the Revolution many documents, speeches and drawings were created in an attempt to unify the colonists and fight the British tyranny. Of these documents, there were three that played an important role in the Revolution. These three documents used similar writing methods to persuade colonists into one common goal; rallying against Great Britain. All three of these documents were persuasive speeches, written to unify the colonists. None of the documents were …

…writings, and you could find aphorisms in The Crisis I, written by Thomas Paine. Aphorisms helped the writer make short powerful statements that the general public could understand. Other important rhetorical devices used in these three documents included parallelism, repetition, and when delivering their speeches they used oratory. Three very talented writers in the Revolutionary Era presented documents that would change the way colonists viewed Britain, uplift their spirits and unify them as one country.