The example from "Top of the Food Chain" that is an appeal to pathos is ". . . the villagers in a panic over the threat of the plague and the stream of nonstop hysterical reports from the interior — people were turning black, swelling up and bursting . . ."
Explanation:
Pathos is a literary device that appeals to the emotions of the reader, or tries to provoke these emotions within them, here these lines appeal to the empathy of us as humans since we can read about the pain of being from our own species, the other options are providing factual information that does not have any emotional appeal.
D. ". . . the villagers in a panic over the threat of the plague and the stream of nonstop hysterical reports from the interior — people were turning black, swelling up and bursting . . ."
Explanation:
Pathos is the greek word we use to refer as the intention of a text to appeal to the audiences emotions in order to persuade them to believe something, in this case the villagers in panic, we are trying to make the reader feel the panic and relate to the villagers, by making an emotional reaction to conect with the text.
