“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

These lines from the Declaration of Independence are an example of the use of .

A- thesis
B- ethos
C- purpose
D- pathos