Question

read the excerpt from paragraph 1.

we remember a time when the potomac river was choked with algae. when lake erie was dying. when too many coastal waters were degraded. when too many urban rivers and beaches were open sewers. when too many communities didn’t have clean, safe water they could depend on.

which two statements describe how gore uses rhetoric to advance a point of view in this paragraph?

• he uses parallelism to emphasize some of the environmental problems americans had to solve.
• he uses pathos to provoke the audience’s emotional response toward environmental problems.
• he uses the bandwagon appeal to suggest that he is part of a group of people who are making good environmental choices.
• he uses ethos to establish credibility and build the audience’s trust about his environmental expertise.
• he uses logos to build a reasonable argument about the importance of environmental policy.
• he uses figures of speech to encourage the audience to imagine new environmental futures.

Explanation:

1. For the first option: The passage uses repeated "When..." structures (parallelism) to list environmental problems (Cuyahoga River, urban rivers/beaches, communities without clean water), emphasizing issues Americans faced. So this is correct.
2. For the third option: The use of "We remember..." creates a bandwagon appeal, suggesting the speaker is part of a group that recalls these past environmental issues (implying they are among those who want to address them, making good environmental choices now). So this is correct.

Other options: The second option's "pathos" - the passage is more about recalling past issues via parallelism/bandwagon, not evoking emotion directly. The fourth option's "ethos" - no evidence of establishing expertise. The fifth option's "logos" - no logical argument structure. The sixth option - the passage is about recalling past problems, not encouraging new solutions.

Answer:

A. He uses parallelism to emphasize some of the environmental problems Americans had to solve.
C. He uses the bandwagon appeal to suggest that he is part of a group of people who are making good environmental choices.