Silly Senate Bill
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In order to convey his argument against the Senate Bill No. 93 effectively, Governor Stevenson organized the address with point of views such as the owners' and the animals', along with a patronizing tone and diction.
Governor Stevenson's statement of veto clearly stated his disapproval of the bill and supported his stand with logics from both the owners' and the cat's side. One of the first supports he mentioned were the properties of the bill. He chose parallelism to emphasize the absurdity of what the bill "would permit" the citizens to do, including trapping, capturing, and being fined for letting their cats loose. The bill further continued onto the nuisance that these feline delinquents would cause to the public. However, Governor Stevenson accentuated the nature of cats - being independent and wild in order to illustrate how the bill was a boondoggler.
In addition to the logically organized arguments, many literary devices such as exaggeration, satire, contrast, personification, and parody were used as means to ridicule the purposes and the effects of the bill. The governor used a sarcastic tone throughout the argument by referring to the "so called 'Cat Bill'". He personified the cats as criminals who "run at large" trying to refrain from getting "pick up and imprison" by the police...