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QuizMultiple Choice

Pronoun Agreement and Reference — Cumulative exam

Question 63 • DRHS Literature and Composition III

Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen;—but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

Answer
A
ethos
B
kairos
C
logos
D
pathos

Explanation

Garrison uses vivid, emotionally intense examples—a house on fire, a woman being attacked, and a baby in danger—to make readers feel the urgency of opposing slavery. This appeal to the audience’s emotions is pathos. The passage’s comparisons support his point, but their main effect is emotional rather than a logical proof.

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