Question

What type of evidence is used in this excerpt from "The Crisis, No.1" by Thomas Paine?

I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! give me peace in my day." Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

A. empirical evidence
B. emotional evidence
C. logical evidence
D. anecdotal evidence

Answer 1

D- anecdotal evidence

Step-by-step explanation:

Anecdotal evidence is information from personal experiences or observations. Anecdotal evidence is used to learn about experiences, trying to prove a point, products, and reviews. It is not scientific evidence, which can be proved objectively.

Thomas Paine wrote Crisis No.1 to unify the colonists and persuade them that the separation of the American Colonies from the English was inevitable, it was going to happen very soon.

In this excerpt, Paine used anecdotal evidence, which refers to the events and feelings that Paine has experienced (a father wanting independence for future generations) to appeal to the emotions of the readers.

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