Jefferson makes rhetoric appeals using persuasive words and phrases such as "independence" and he also says "we hold" through out the text and he uses parallelism throughout the text such as when Jefferson uses the same words in the starting of a sentence. I think these are affective because it is words that people always desire and want which leads to persuasion. I think Jefferson did use words because of their connotative power like when Jefferson uses the words "equal" and "independent" to describe people all through out the text. He uses these words because he know the connotative power behind it and that people will immediately think that the colonies are innocent and that they are the victim to the British government. He uses those words
