Read this excerpt from the declaration of independence. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely Paralleled In The Most Barbarous ages...

which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the text

A. pathos
B. text structure
C. deductive logic
D. ethos