Question

Read the sentence.

The blood of his children shall curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy.

What persuasive technique is used in this passage from The Crisis by Thomas Paine?


appeal to authority
appeal to emotion
appeal to logic
appeal to ethics

Answer 1

Appeal of emotion. Happy and cowardice is an emotion. (Cowardice can be an action too).

Answer 2

The persuasive technique that is used in the passage from "The Crisis", by Thomas Paine, is the following one:

Appeal to emotion.

Step-by-step explanation:

One can tell there is appeal to emotion both by the word choice (intense and full of effect: blood, curse, cowardice) and the meaning as a whole ("the blood of his children", which sounds intense and strong). The sentence causes the reader to have an awkward feeling, a mixture of anger and sorrow, and those are certainly emotions.