What did you write?
Kind of a hard question and slightly confusing to answer
Ethos is used in this sentence. Speakers appeal to ethos to show that they are credible and trustworthy. Appeals to ethos emphasize shared values between the speaker and the audience. Speakers build ethos by explaining their credentials or background to show that they are knowledgeable or qualified to speak on a subject.
In this sentence, ethos is used because credibility is established by referring to the professor at Harvard—who has a PhD— whom the speaker consulted.
Than is incorrect. should be then*
Answer:
Ebbs and flows in this context mean that human misery comes and goes.
Explanation:
The poem, Dover Beach, written by Matthew Arnold, uses the term 'ebbs and flows' to describe how human misery comes and goes. Ebbs and flows, in the context of sea movement, refers to the coming (flows) and going (ebbs) of the sea tides.
We can say that though hardships and miseries are experienced by all humans, eventually, it would all go away, drifting into the sea as we continue to live on and experience more happiness and betterment flowing in.
The stanza referred is this excerpt:
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
