Question

Read the following excerpt from the article (Paragraph 3).

At 7:36 p.m., a magnitude 7.0 quake struck. The city was nearly leveled, but only about 2,000 people were killed. Without the warning, easily 150,000 would have died. “And so you finally had an earthquake forecast that did indeed save lives,” Lin recalls. “People were excited. Or, you could say, uplifted. Uplifted is a great word for it.” But uplift turned to heartbreak the very next year, when a 7.5 quake shattered the city of Tangshan without so much as a magnitude 4 to introduce it. When the quake hit the city of 1.6 million at 3:42 a.m., it killed nearly 250,000 people, most of whom were asleep. “If there was any moment in my life when I was scared of earthquakes, that was it,” Lin says. “You think, what if it happened to you? And it could. I decided that if I could do anything—anything—to save lives lost to earthquakes, it would be worth the effort.”


How and why does the author of the passage use rhetorical devices in the excerpt to stress the importance of earthquake detection?

In your response, be sure to:
Identify and describe the rhetorical devices used in the excerpt;
Evaluate how the rhetorical devices enhance the author’s reasoning and argument;
Include at least two specific and relevant pieces of evidence;
Include what is directly stated and what is implied in the excerpt.

Your response should be in the form of an organized, well-developed, multi-sentence paragraph(s) that uses appropriate grammar and punctuation.

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

The author of the passage uses rhetorical resources to make the text more fluid and more effective, reaching the reader intensely about certain elements of the construction of the racicion, highlighting important points in the text. In the text above, the author does just that and uses resources to make the text more accessible, clear and very punctual, allowing several readers to be moved in relation to what is being narrated.

In the text shown above, we can see that the author used the resources called "Logos" and "Pathos", to promote logical reasoning and stimulate the readers' emotional about the subject commented. The logos were used in the lines "The city was nearly leveled, but only about 2,000 people were killed. Without the warning, easily 150,000 would have died," showing a logical argument that shows how the detection and warning of possible earthquakes is efficient. Later on, the author uses the pathos on the lines "I decided that if I could do anything — anything — to save lives lost to earthquakes, it would be worth the effort" where it touches readers and shows an emotional feeling towards the text.