Question

read the excerpt from prime minister winston churchills \their finest hour\ speech, delivered to the united kingdoms house of commons in 1940.
during the first four years of the last war the allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. that was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers. everything miscarried. and yet at the end of those four years the morale of the allies was higher than that of the germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken.
the rhetorical technique used in this excerpt is
○ shift.
○ understatement.
○ logos.
○ parallelism.

Explanation:

Para determinar la técnica retórica, analizamos:

• Shift: No hay cambio de tono/foque brusco.
• Understatement: No minimiza; describe desastres y luego una realidad (moral alta vs. triunfos alemanes).
• Logos: Usa razonamiento (comparación entre moraleja de Aliados y alemanes tras 4 años de desastres/éxitos).
• Parallelism: No hay estructuras repetitivas paralelas.

La técnica es logos porque presenta un razonamiento lógico al comparar la moral de los Aliados (a pesar de desastres) con la de los alemanes (a pesar de triunfos) para argumentar.

Answer:

C. logos