Question

read this excerpt from the declaration of independence: he has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the underlined portion of the text? a. ethos b. deductive logic c. inductive logic d. pathos

Explanation:

• Ethos: Appeals to credibility or character. Not relevant here.
• Deductive logic: Reasoning from general to specific. Not the case.
• Inductive logic: Reasoning from specific to general. Not applicable.
• Pathos: Appeals to emotion. The underlined text evokes fear (dangers of invasion, convulsions) which is an emotional appeal.

Answer:

D. Pathos