Question

Read the passage. My brother and I shared a bedroom during our youth, and our mornings typically began with my mother’s voice signaling the start of a new day. Except for one morning in April 1968, when she sat at the edge of my bed and gently shook me out of my slumber. "I have some really bad news,” she whispered. . . . The jarring word of Dr. King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, is one of those rare life-changing moments that is chiseled in stone for millions of Americans. –"The Politically Progressive Faith of Martin Luther King,” Gregory E. Sterling How does the author use a rhetorical device to influence his audience? by appealing to logic by appealing to authority by appealing to emotions by appealing to the senses

Answer 1

Answer: it is c.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer: Appealing to emotions.

Explanation: The words “jarring” and “I have some really bad news” makes us uncomfortable and sad that Martin Luther King Jr. meant a lot to so many people before he got assassinated and they are appealing to our emotions this way.