Question

In addition to academic and extracurricular achievements in school, I am an involved member of my community. I volunteer at the local animal shelter every Saturday morning, and I help build houses for a nonprofit organization a few times a year with my family.

Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used here?

A. Inductive logic
B. Ethos
C. parallelism
D. Text structure

Answer 1

Answer:A?

I believe its a or c but if i had to chose id go with A

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer: B) Ethos.

Explanation: When writing, an author can use several rhetorical devices in order to persuade, inform or impact the audience in the desired way. Ethos is a commonly used rhetorical device that consists in appealing to the audience's ethics. In the given excerpt, we can see a clear example of the use of ethos (corresponding to option B) because the speaker is listing all the things she/he does in order to increase his/her credibility.