The+Declaration+of+Independence

· The time period is the 1770s and it affected the literary style because people back then had different ideas of what was good and bad at that time. · The purpose in writing The Declaration of Independence was to have rules for the United States. · The literary techniques that were used were a variety of them because Jefferson wanted to make sure that they wrote what was good for the people of the United States. · The literature characteristics of the time period was to give a reason to why they declared independence and why they fought the Brittish.