Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison.During my recent tour for the purpose of exciting the minds of the people by a series of discourses on the subject of slavery, every place that I visited gave fresh evidence of the fact, that a greater revolution in public sentiment was to be effected in the free states—and particularly in New-England—than at the south. I found contempt more bitter, opposition more active, detraction more relentless, prejudice more stubborn, and apathy more frozen, than among slave owners themselves.
Answer
A
The personification supports pathos by showing the author’s disappointment with the North.
B
The irony supports ethos by showing the author’s knowledge about how the North and South are different.
C
The alliteration supports ethos by blaming the North for the actions of the whole country.
D
The asyndeton supports pathos by detailing the North’s role in maintaining the institution of slavery in the country.
Explanation
Garrison lists the North’s attitudes—“contempt,” “opposition,” “detraction,” “prejudice,” and “apathy”—without joining them with conjunctions. This asyndeton makes the criticism build in a forceful sequence, stirring the reader’s feelings about the North’s resistance to ending slavery. Choice D correctly identifies the device and its emotional effect.
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