The excerpt from <em>Make a Difference This Weekend</em> by Greg Tucker that demonstrates the use of the bandwagon technique is the first one. <u>The correct answer is A.</u>
Explanation:
The <em>Bandwagon technique</em> is one of the many techniques used in propaganda to convince the audience to do something. In this case, the objective of the propaganda is that people join volunteer service. This technique consists on trying to encourage people by saying that everyone else is doing it, so it would be silly not to do it too. It is like "<em>Everyone else is joining, so don't miss it out!</em>" kind of thing.
This happens in the first excerpt when it says that millions will take part in the annual Make a Difference Day, and invites the audience to hurry and join them by finding a project.
"Ten o'clock. The sun came out from behind the rain. The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.
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She was lovely, according to the poem—until she was raped in Athena's temple by Poseidon. Athena then punished her for this violation, by turning her into the monstrous, stony-glanced creature that we know.
