Read the excerpt from "To the Public” by William Lloyd Garrison.During my recent tour for the purpose of exciting the minds of the people by a series of discourses on the subject of slavery, every place that I visited gave fresh evidence of the fact, that a greater revolution in public sentiment was to be effected in the free states—and particularly in New-England—than at the south. I found contempt more bitter, opposition more active, detraction more relentless, prejudice more stubborn, and apathy more frozen, than among slave owners themselves.
Answer
A
The personification supports pathos by showing the author’s disappointment with the North.
B
The irony supports ethos by showing the author’s knowledge about how the North and South are different.
C
The alliteration supports ethos by blaming the North for the actions of the whole country.
D
The asyndeton supports pathos by detailing the North’s role in maintaining the institution of slavery in the country.