Analyze Style and Rhetoric Analyze how William Jennings Bryan used language to appeal to populists in his “Cross of Gold" speech. What
words, phrases, or expressions do you think would appeal the most to the
audience and why?

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.