Answer: D
Explanation:
<em>Logos</em> appeals to the audience's logic/reason, <em>Ethos</em> appeals to the speaker's status or authority, making the audience more likely to trust them, and <em>Pathos</em> appeals to the emotions.
The best way to identify ethos is noticing which sentences come from credible sources or smart people. "I'm a doctor, and I can tell you this medicine is safe," something like that. D is the opinion of multiple professional zoologists, so we know it's ethos.
Meta-fiction is the correct answer
I believe it is the third option. I feel like it should be written in numerical form, like November, 16, 1961.
The irony is that the "nice" mom---Laurie's mom---is the one with the badly-behaved son. She just doesn't realize at first that Charles and Laurie are the same person. Again, the irony is that she believes only a bad mother would have such a bad kid, but HER own son turns out to be the bad kid.
A / B would work the others are not as convincing