Question

Which is the most prominent kind of rhetorical appeal Thomas Paine uses here?

Answer 1

You did not provide the excerpt, but Thomas Paine was famous for using logos and pathos often. Logos is when he supports his claims with empirical evidence, while pathos is when he supports his claims by appealing to your emotions and explains why you should fight.

Answer 2

Read this excerpt from Common Sense:

The Continent hath at this time the largest body of armed and disciplined men of any power under Heaven: and is just arrived at that pitch of strength, in which no single colony is able to support itself, and the whole, when united, is able to do anything.

Which is the most prominent kind of rhetorical appeal Thomas Paine uses here?

A. Logos

B. Figurative language

C. Pathos

D. Personification

IF THIS IS THE EXCERPT YOU HAVE The correct answer is: Logos.

Live on APEX students. (8/23/2018 when posted this)