The rhetorical mode that the author uses can best be classified as
b. Persuasion
<h3 /><h3>What was the rhetorical mode?</h3>
In this text by Thomas Paine, the American colonists were being persuaded to fight for their rights.
Paine was here saying that their children will view them as cowards if they did not defend themselves against the British people. Pathos was used here.
