Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Unlike those of my ancestry, the Negro’s unemployment rate is triple the national average. The mortality rate of his children is twice that of white children. He often pays more for his miserable tenement than comparable space will cost in the white suburbs. He is likely to pay more for his groceries, more for his furniture, more for his liquor, and more for his credit. And my fellow Americans, today many thousands of black Americans return from Vietnam with medals of valor. Some of them have been crippled in the service of their country. But too often they return to economic and social circumstances that are barely, if at all, improved over those they left. Is it any wonder that the Negro questions whether his place in our country’s history books will be any less forgotten than were the contributions of his ancestors? Is it any wonder that the Negroes find it hard to wait another 100 years before they are accepted as full citizens in our free society? Which technique does Inouye use to strengthen an appeal?
Answer
A
He uses metaphor to appeal to authority.
B
He uses allusion to appeal to timeliness.
C
He uses antithesis to appeal to emotion.
D
He uses rhetorical questions to appeal to logic.
Explanation
Inouye ends with questions such as “Is it any wonder” that Black Americans question their place in history or struggle to wait for acceptance? These are rhetorical questions: they prompt the audience to consider the logical conclusion that the unequal conditions he described make their frustration understandable. The questions also stir emotion, but the choice that identifies the technique and appeal is “rhetorical questions to appeal to logic.”
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