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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Read the excerpts from historical documents.From the Declaration of Independence:. . . That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.From the Declaration of Sentiments:Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

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because they are heartfelt praises intended to applaud activists
B
because they mention the Founding Fathers in an attempt to inspire
C
because they are powerful calls to change that define their causes
D
because they are battle cries that demand physical confrontation
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Which statement uses pathos as a rhetorical appeal?

A
Sixty percent of the community center staff are unpaid volunteers.
B
The center is subsidized, and over half of the children attend for free.
C
The children’s innocence touches the volunteers’ hearts.
D
Many staffers are retired teachers with impressive resumes.
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A
state lawmakers
B
a women’s rights convention
C
a community activist group
D
college students
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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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Which words in the excerpt have negative connotations? Choose three answer options.

A
prevent
B
population
C
purpose
D
obstructing
E
refusing
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . .

A
Jefferson uses words with neutral connotations to present a claim based on reason and precedent.
B
Jefferson uses words with positive connotations to praise his listeners for their political activism.
C
Jefferson uses words with neutral connotations to suggest that there is no urgency to his message.
D
Jefferson uses words with positive connotations to encourage peaceful relations with Britain.
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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.

A
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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Read the excerpts from historical documents.From the Declaration of Independence:. . . all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.From the Declaration of Sentiments:. . . all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed.

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to highlight the physical pain of oppression
B
to establish their personal connections to their causes
C
to acknowledge the difficulty of challenging the status quo
D
to applaud lawmakers for their efforts to bring about change
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.Nor have We been wanting in attention to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

A
to inform readers about British immigration to the colonies
B
to convince readers that Britain has treated the colonists unfairly
C
to inform readers about specific acts of British military aggression
D
to convince readers that American colonists should be tried in Britain

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