Question

Read the excerpt from Queen Elizabeth's Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry.

As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks for the good zeal and loving care you seem to have, as well towards me as to the whole estate of your country.

In this excerpt, Queen Elizabeth relies heavily on a rhetorical appeal to pathos by

A) encouraging an emotional response from the audience.
B) establishing her credibility as a capable leader.
C) providing a logical reason for trusting her leadership skills.
D) demonstrating her ability to speak persuasively.

(C is incorrect)

Answer 1

A.

Step-by-step explanation:

In 1559, Queen Elizabeth I delivered a speech which was a response to the Parliament's request for her marriage and produce an heir for the kingdom.

In her speech, she preserved her right that whether she should marry and whom she should marry. She has used the rhetorical appeal of pathos also known as an appeal to emotions.

She starts her speech with the given excerpt invoking emotions in her audience that she is thankful for the good care of her people who are concerned about her. She did in a manner to invoke an emotional response from her audience.

She tries to persuade her listeners by saying that she is already married to her kingdom the day she became a Queen, she married England and the citizen of England is her children.

So, the correct answer is option A.

Answer 2

The correct option is A.
There are three basic methods that are used to persuade people or to convince an audience. The methods are ethos, pathos and logos. Logos refers to an appeal to the audience's sense of logic while ethos appeal to the audience's sense of ethics. Pathos refers to an appeal to the audience's emotion. When the pathos method is used, an appeal to the emotion of the audience is used to draw the audience to the speaker's side.