Question

Select the correct text in the passage.

Answer 1

Answer:

The children in the district are so poor and some of them so pathetic that I suppose the struggle to live has been so great you could not think much about what you fed the mind, but I came away feeling that right there, in one of the biggest and richest states in the country, we had a big area that needed books and needed libraries to help these schools in the education of the children, and, even more, to help the whole community to learn to live through their minds.

Explanation:

According to Aristotle, there are three main rhetorical devices used when trying to convince an audience of a certain point of view. They are called ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and logos is an appeal to logic.

Pathos is the emotional appeal. The speaker tries to provoke feelings - pity, sorrow, empathy etc. - so that the audience will understand and agree to the speaker's opinion. After reading the excerpt of Eleanor Roosevelt's speech, we can find the section in which she makes an emotional appeal through her choice of words. When she describes the situation in which the kids live, how poor and pathetic they are, how great the struggle is to survive, she is trying to inspire pity and concern in her audience. Roosevelt then proceeds to explaining that libraries are necessary in those areas, since education could help change that terrible situation. She successfully connects the audience's emotions to the solution.

Answer 2

The children in the district are so poor and some of them so pathetic that I suppose the struggle to live has been so great you could not think much about what you fed the mind, but I came away feeling that right there, in one of the biggest and richest states in the country, we had a big area that needed books and needed libraries to help these schools in the education of the children, and, even more, to help the whole community to learn to live through their minds.