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 actually written to be read, but rather written to be spoken. They are written so that anyone of any intell…