Question

Read this passage from "The American Dream." And there is another thing we see in this dream that ultimately distinguishes democracy and our form of government from all of the totalitarian regimes that emerge in history. It says that each individual has certain basic rights that are neither conferred by nor derived from the state. To discover where they came from it is necessary to move back behind the dim mist of eternity, for they are God-given. Very seldom if ever in the history of the world has a sociopolitical document expressed in such profoundly eloquent and unequivocal language the dignity and the worth of human personality. The American dream reminds us that every man is heir to the legacy of worthiness. Which choice states the rhetorical appeal that the passage uses? The passage appeals to logos. The passage appeals to ethos. The passage appeals to pathos. The passage appeals to argument.\

Answer 1

Answer is logos, the appeal to reason. 

In rational and eloquent wording, the passage uses logic to assert American exceptionalism, and the fact that the American Dream is unique in that it invokes human rights as granted by God, not the state. 

Answer 2

“Very seldom if ever in the history of the world”