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1.2.2 Quiz: Understand the Elements of Rhetoric
Question 3 of 10
2 Points
Which statement is an example of pathos? A. Children in low income urban areas are five times more likely to suffer from hunger as those in rural areas. B. Each year, over 130,000 children don't get adequate nutrition. Of these children, almost 20,000 are officially starving. C. How can you turn away from a child who is hungry? Look at the sad faces of the children and find it in your heart to give. D. According to Dr. Bost, an expert on childhood hunger, hungry children cannot properly function in school.
Answer:
C. How can you turn away from a child who is hungry? Look at the sad faces of the children and find it in your heart to give, is an example of pathos.
Explanation:
Pathos is a rhetorical resource whose main objective is to influence the emotional triggering of the reader or listener of a speech. The use of pathos can be seen in texts that depict emotional, delicate situations that make the reader feel angry, compassion, sadness or even pity, among other feelings.
As you can see in the question above, alternative C evokes sentimentality, making the reader feel compassion and pity for what you are reading.
Firstly,
let us define each word based on the dictionary:
A. Opthalmology is a branch of science or medicine dealing
with anything related to the diseases/disorders of the eyes and its diagnosis,
treatment.
B. Pedagogue is the art of teaching where the teacher
reads his lessons to his students in a monotone manner.
C. Taxidermy is curating an animal making it look like
it’s alive again.
<span>D. Inoculate is injecting a lesser form or a
microorganism a host to treat a disease.</span>
