D. When a character, place,thing, or event in a literary work stands for a larger idea.
Answer:
Pathos
Explanation:
Pathos appeals to the emotions of an audience and draws out the feelings that already reside in them. It is a technique used in rhetoric, literature, film, and other areas of narrative art.
"<em>The Diary of a Wimpy kids: the Last Straw"</em> is a book that tells the story of Greg Heffley and his daily life reflected. The story starts on January 1, when George and the family are sharing its New Year's resolutions. Greg has a friend, Rowley, and both walk to school and back home, sharing stories.
Greg is compared the son of his father’s boss. Greg starts playing in the intramural team in school, where George substitutes a first-team goalie but he gets distracted and the team loses the match. His father is embarrassed and after a while he decides to enroll Greg in a military school, but firstly Greg joins the boy scouts to impress his father. But Greg misses a camp trip and is afraid to end up in the military school.
His father reconsiders the idea of the military camp and finally, Greg is expecting anxiously his summer vacation. End of the book.
The tone which is not effective for convincing people that they should subscribe to your perspective is definitely C) sarcastic. Nobody is going to listen to you if you offend or mock them.
