Question

Which example from "Top of the Food Chain" is an appeal to pathos?

A. "Believe me, we confirmed a lot of things there about the buildup of these products as you move up the food chain and the efficacy — or lack thereof — of certain methods . . ."
B. "But let me backtrack a minute here. You see, out in the bush they have these roofs made of thatched palm leaves — you'll see them in the towns too, . . ."
C. ". . . approximately fourteen thousand in all. And yes, it cost us — cost us up-front purchase money and aircraft fuel and pilots' overtime . . ."
D. ". . . the villagers in a panic over the threat of the plague and the stream of nonstop hysterical reports from the interior — people were turning black, swelling up and bursting . . ."

Answer 1

The example from "Top of the Food Chain" that is an appeal to pathos is ". . . the villagers in a panic over the threat of the plague and the stream of nonstop hysterical reports from the interior — people were turning black, swelling up and bursting . . ."

Step-by-step explanation:

Pathos is a literary device that appeals to the emotions of the reader, or tries to provoke these emotions within them, here these lines appeal to the empathy of us as humans since we can read about the pain of being from our own species, the other options are providing factual information that does not have any emotional appeal.

Answer 2

D. ". . . the villagers in a panic over the threat of the plague and the stream of nonstop hysterical reports from the interior — people were turning black, swelling up and bursting . . ."

Step-by-step explanation:

Pathos is the greek word we use to refer as the intention of a text to appeal to the audiences emotions in order to persuade them to believe something, in this case the villagers in panic, we are trying to make the reader feel the panic and relate to the villagers, by making an emotional reaction to conect with the text.