Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." We have been told that the revolts are against the system, and that Establishment must be torn down. But my fellow Americans, in Paris recently, students cut down 100-year-old trees to erect temporary street barricades. Those trees had lived through two world wars. Some of them had even survived the revolution of 1848. Were the goals of these students served by the destruction of those trees? How long will it take for their beauty and the vitality they symbolized to grow again? What trees did the students plant in their place? Which statement best describes an appeal Inouye makes in this excerpt?
Answer
A
Synecdoche supports an appeal to emotion.
B
Statistics support an appeal to timeliness.
C
Rhetorical questions support an appeal to emotion.
D
Metaphor supports an appeal to timeliness.
Explanation
Inouye asks whether destroying the trees served the students’ goals and how long their beauty and vitality will take to return. These rhetorical questions are meant to make listeners feel the loss and consider the damage, creating an appeal to emotion. The correct choice is “Rhetorical questions support an appeal to emotion.”
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