Question

what rhetorical technique is best shown in the following excerpt from wongs testimony to congress?
on august 5 alone, the day hongkongers participated in a general strike, riot police shot 800 canisters of tear gas to disperse the peaceful masses. compare that to only 87 fired in the entire umbrella movement five years ago.
○ logos
○ rhetorical questioning
○ pathos
○ ethos

Explanation:

The excerpt uses numerical data (800 canisters on August 5 vs. 87 in the entire Umbrella Movement) to make a logical argument, which is characteristic of logos (appeal to logic through facts/statistics). Rhetorical questioning is about asking questions, ethos is about credibility, and pathos is about emotion—none of these match the data - based approach here.

Answer:

A. logos