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Which statement uses logos as a rhetorical appeal?

A
No young child should go to bed feeling hungry.
B
The committee has experience with staffing and operating food banks.
C
Without food banks, families would face the empty shelves of their pantries.
D
If the food bank collects one hundred more cans, it will be fully stocked.
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments.He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master—the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement.

A
Stanton uses words with positive connotations to encourage women to discover their voices.
B
Stanton uses words with negative connotations to emphasize the persecution of women.
C
Stanton uses words with positive connotations to highlight women’s road toward social progress.
D
Stanton uses words with negative connotations to criticize women for their apathy.
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Read the excerpts from historical documents.From the Declaration of Independence:For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.From the Declaration of Sentiments:After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single, and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it.

A
Both insist that taxes should be reduced.
B
Both offer accusations of legal oppression.
C
Both complain about real estate values.
D
Both encourage the underprivileged to speak up.
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.

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by describing one young woman’s unfulfilled potential
B
by emphasizing the injustices endured by women
C
by explaining laws that govern marriages
D
by establishing her authority to question the status quo

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