Read these sentences from the Declaration of Independence. How does Jefferson structure the argument to make it clear and convin
cing? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
In the Declaration of Independence, President Thomas Jefferson makes uses of <em>parallelism</em>, as he tries to make a correspondence between the fact that "All men are created equal" with the "unalienable rights" which are endowed by their Creator, such as Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
