Question

Read the appeal.

I recently read an article that stated that childen who are consistently exposed to arts and culture tend to be better prepared to handle conflict and resolve disputes in their teenage and adult years.

What explains the type of appeal in this passage and identifies an instance where this appeal would be appropriate?

Question options:

It is a logical appeal; it would be appropriate if you were trying to convince your mom to let you go to a concert on a school night.


It is an emotional appeal; it would be appropriate if your aim was to get your mother to feel guilty for not allowing you to attend a concert on a school night.


It is an ethical appeal; it would be appropriate if you were trying to convince your mother that you are an authority on good parenting.


It is an emotional appeal; it would be useful if you were trying to make your mother fearful about your conflicts with peers.

Answer 1

It is a Logical Appeal.

Answer 2

Answer: A) It is a logical appeal; it would be appropriate if you were trying to convince your mom to let you go to a concert on a school night.

Explanation: When writing, an author can use several rhetorical devices in order to persuade, inform or impact the audience in the desired way. Three of the must used rhetorical devices are ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is an appeal to the audience's ethics, logos is an appeal to the audience's logic and pathos is an appeal to the audience's emotions. In the given excerpt we can see an example of a logical appeal (logos) because it gives arguments based on evidence (the article).