Thomas Paine's Use Of Rhetoric In Common Sense

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Thomas Paine is successful in applying rhetoric in this writing of "Common Sense" because it changed how people viewed the topics discussed and we are still reading this work today. Thomas Paine uses many forms of rhetoric in his writing some more successful than others made clear through his use of parallelism, addressing the opposition, and rhetorical questions. Paine uses parallelism many times throughout "Common Sense" to emphasize the points he wants to make. For example when introducing the topics and describing his thoughts on the present state of America he he explains that "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense" this parallelism was effectiveness because this sentence stood out among the rest of
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