We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure
these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form
of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and
to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience
hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government,
and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled. (2)

The second paragraph includes all of the following devices EXCEPT
A. personification
B. parallelism
C. repetition
D. oxymoron
E. opinion