Question

read the selection, and choose the best answer to each question.
diary entry: after the great crash!
1 january 30, 1930. what a gray day. i tried fixing my skates in case the pond freezes, but when i went to try them on, i realized i had outgrown them. theyre lying in the corner now, useless and lonely. poor skates! i wonder if things need us more than we need them; if we dont use them, dont they just start to fade away?
2 i wouldnt mind the surly weather and the wasted afternoon so much if there were even a ray of sunshine, but the news is as bleak as the sky. my cousin rudy in buffalo wrote to say he lost his job. my dad says thats the fault of the stock market crash.
reread these rhetorical questions from paragraph 5.
\when people feel they have been robbed, how much will they give? when people feel they have been shoved aside, how much will they trust?\
what is the purpose most clearly served by these questions?
○ use logos to encourage readers to do more research about the stock market crash
○ use pathos to get readers to think about the emotional impact of the stock market crash
○ use logos to inspire people to think about what really caused the stock market crash
○ use ethos to make the narrator seem like a knowledgeable figure about the stock market crash

Explanation:

Rhetorical questions are used to evoke an emotional response. In this case, the questions about people's feelings (being "robbed" and "shoved aside") and their resulting actions (giving, trusting) are related to emotions. Pathos is the appeal to emotions. The questions are not about logical reasoning (logos) or establishing credibility (ethos). They are making readers think about the emotional impact of the stock market situation.

Answer:

To use pathos to get readers to think about the emotional impact of the stock market crash.