1. Review Literary Terms Rhetorical device: technique used by authors to communicate ideas effectively Tone: the authors attitude toward the subject Theme: central idea or message of piece Repetition: technique of repeating words or phrases to reinforce meaning and create rhythm. Parallelism: the use of similar grammatical structures to express ideas that are related or equal in importance. Syntax: arrangement of words into phrases, clauses and sentences (sentence structure)

2. Examining Syntax When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them…

3. Examining Parallelism “…it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principals, and organizing its powers from such form…”

4. Examining Parallelism “…it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principals, and organizing its powers from such form…”

5. Practice #1 “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.”

6. Practice #1 “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” Parallel phrases “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.”

7. Practice #2 “We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.”

8. Practice #2 “We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.” Parallel clauses or sentences