Question

Which statement uses pathos as a rhetorical appeal?

Sixty percent of the community center staff are unpaid volunteers.
The center is subsidized, and over half of the children attend for free.
The children’s innocence touches the volunteers’ hearts.
Many staffers are retired teachers with impressive resumes.

Answer 1

Answer: C) The children’s innocence touches the volunteers’ hearts.

Step-by-step explanation: When writing, an author can use several rhetorical devices in order to persuade, inform or impact the audience in the desired way. One of the must used rhetorical devices is pathos which is an appeal to the audience's emotions. From the given options, the statement that uses pathos as a rhetorical appeal is the corresponding to option C: The children’s innocence touches the volunteers’ hearts, the mention of children's innocence is an appeal to emotion.

Answer 2

The correct answer is - The children’s innocence touches the volunteers’ hearts.

Pathos as a rhetorical appeal should affect your emotions by using poignant themes such as the children's innocence. The other options give you facts rather than feelings, and are thus using ethos rather than pathos. By using pathos, you want to make your audience feel things and therefore agree with your points.