Question

What rhetorical device is used in the following sentence?

Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in Oahu, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to the Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message.

A)Emotion
B)Ethos
C)Logos
D)Pathos

Answer 1

Under the common, reductive, definitions of "ethos, logos, pathos" this excerpt best represents "logos." 

Answer 2

The correct answer isC) Logos.

The rethorical device used in the sentence is logos.

Taking into consideration that the sentence says that “the Japanese Ambassador delivered a formal reply”, we can assume that diplomatic formal reply used logos, the reason, arguments, because in diplomacy that is the language is used to convey ideas between countries, and furthermore, in this case, the relationship between the United States and Japan were of much tension. Both countries were on a brink of war.