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Which type of appeal is sojourner truth making in "aint i a woman?" When she says that she gave birth to 13 children and saw them all sold into slavery

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Emotional Appeal ( Pathos)

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When writing, an author can use several rhetorical devices in order to persuade, inform or impact the audience in the desired way. Three of the must used rhetorical devices are ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is an appeal to the audience's ethics, logos is an appeal to the audience's logic and pathos is an appeal to the audience's emotions. When the speaker of "Ain't I A Woman" says that she gave birth to 13 children and saw them all sold into slavery, she is appealing to the audience's emotions.

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Emotional appeal (Pathos)

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In her speech, Sojourner is trying to depict her suffering by saying that she gave birth to 13 children and saw them all sold into slavery, in order to provoke empathy and get an emotional reaction from the public. According to Aristotle,This approach is know as Pathos, which consists in an appeal to the audience's emotions.

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