Globalization and the Information Age: Postmodernism into the Twenty-First Century — Test

Question 18 • TPS EdX English Language Arts 11

Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best illustrates the author’s use of the rhetorical appeal logos ?

Answer

A job at a fast food restaurant became an American rite of passage, a first job soon left behind for better things.

When she finally walks home, after seven hours of standing at a cash register, her feet hurt. She’s wiped out.

English is now the second language of at least one-sixth of the nation’s restaurant workers, and about one-third of that group speaks no English at all.

Her family’s modest townhouse sits beside a busy highway on the south side of Colorado Springs, in a largely poor and working-class neighborhood.

Explanation

Logos is an appeal to logic and evidence, often using facts or statistics to support a point. Choice C gives specific figures about restaurant workers’ language skills, making it the clearest example of logos. The other choices mainly describe an experience or setting.

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