It is C it made most sense to me too
"Pathos" is the classic appeal in "Civil disobedience" written by Henry David Thoreau.
<u>Explanation</u>
Henry David Thoreau is arguing that the citizens of Massachusetts should fight against the practice of slavery. They should try to abolish slavery and as a result of their protest they should stop paying the taxes to the government of the country.
In the text written by him, Thoreau says and gives the government of the country a face of the human who is a tax collector and tries to appeal to the audience through the emotions.
True.
A referentis a person or thing to which a name refers.