The correct answer is B. <span>I am running in a charity race next month.
The progressive verb is "running". All of the other sentences have simple verbs.</span>
The type of rhetorical device that is being used in this sentence would be pathos. It is pathos because this rhetorical device is about appealing to the reader's emotions, and that is exactly what this sentence does. There is a part of the question that could give you a little bit of a hint towards the answer; "... to make the reader feel..."
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