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Which excerpt from Silent Spring best appeals

to readers' pathos?
O So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised
their houses, sank their wells, and built
their barns.
O The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where,
in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of
color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines.
O The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants
was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them.
• Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already
suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined traged
may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

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Answer:

the answer is the passage stating

Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already

suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined traged

may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

Step-by-step explanation:

Pathos appeals to the readers emotions, using keywords such as disasters, communities, grim,tragedy,stark reality ,it sets a negative connotation that is connected by the author to the reader's future

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