Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker. There is a cemetery near our family church where she is buried, but because her marker was made of wood and rotted years ago, it is impossible to tell exactly where her body lies. In the same cemetery are most of my mother’s people, who have lived in Georgia for so long nobody even remembers when they came. And all of my great-aunts and -uncles are there, and my grandfather and grandmother, and, very recently, my own father. Which type of rhetoric does Walker use to show that she has strong roots in Georgia?
Walker builds ethos by describing her family’s long history in Georgia and naming relatives buried in the cemetery, including her father. These personal details establish her close connection to the place and show that her roots there run deep. The choice is ethos, not pathos, which primarily appeals to emotion.
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