Carson appeals to ethos when he highlights the sad and depressing elements of the situation, as option D shows.
<h3>What is ethos?</h3>
It is a rhetorical feature.
It is the resource that stimulates sentimentalism.
Ethos is used to persuade the audience through emotions. Thus, when using ethos, the author or speaker stimulates sentences that emphasize sad or happy feelings, but that are capable of emotionally involving the reader.
<span>D is the correct answer. Moore expressed a wish that poets would create “imaginary gardens with real toads in them” in this poem, showing her opinion against the strict traditions and elitism of poetry as a genre.</span>
