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Analyzing the Use of Rhetoric, Part 2

Question 3 • 26-27 Ignite English 12 NG KY-English Language Arts 12

Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.

Answer
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inductive, because she moves from specific details to a broad conclusion
B
abductive, because she starts with a generalization and moves toward a specific conclusion
C
deductive, because she uses a pattern to justify a generalization
D
inductive, because she begins with a specific example and uses it to draw a narrow conclusion
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