Answer: <u>Pathos</u> is a persuasive technique in which the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience.
Explanation:
Ethos, pathos and logos are different persuasion techniques that the author employs to convince the audience.
Ethos (also ethical appeal) is the author's attempt to persuade the audience of author's credibility.
Pathos (also emotional appeal) is an attempt to earn the sympathy of the audience by appealing to their emotions.
Logos (the appeal to logic) is the use of logic to convince the audience.
Rebuttal is speaker's attempt to come up with the evidence for why a particular argument is not valid.
