Rhetorical Analysis Of Thomas Paine Speech

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Freedom Thomas Paine wrote many speeches, articles, and pamphlets, but there is one piece of writing that stands out, his Crisis NO. 1 speech. The main idea of this speech was to convince anyone reading or listening to it to fight Britain and to make the colonies their own country. Thomas Paine is an amazing, because he uses pathos, logos, and ethos very effectively. In this speech he uses pathos the most to convince the colonies to leave Britain. Pathos is the way writers appeal to feelings and Pain hits the bulls eye in this speech by making it affect everyone that read it and he wrote it in a simple enough manner that everyone in the colonies could read it. He first uses pathos when he say, “If there must be trouble let it be in my day;

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