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Read this excerpt from a speech Eleanor Roosevelt made following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Which phrase or sentence demonstrates the use of pathos?

By tomorrow morning the members of Congress will have a full report and be ready for action. In the meantime, we the people are already prepared for action. For months now the knowledge that something of this kind might happen has been hanging over our heads and yet it seemed impossible to believe, impossible to drop the everyday things of life and feel that there was only one thing which was important—preparation to meet an enemy no matter where he struck. That is all over now and there is no more uncertainty. We know what we have to face and we know that we are ready to face it.

A. By tomorrow morning the members of Congress will have a full report and be ready for action.

B. For months now the knowledge that something of this kind might happen has been hanging over our heads

C. Preparation to meet an enemy no matter where he struck.

D. We know what we have to face and we know that we are ready to face it.

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The sentence from the text that peaks to pathos is:

For months now the knowledge that something of this kind might happen has been hanging over our heads (Option B). Hanging over our heads here means fear. Hence Pathos.

Why is Pathos involved in the option selected above?

This option makes reference to fear which is a kind of feeling. Pathos in literature is a kind of rhetoric used to elicit persuasion by appealing to emotions or feelings.

Because option B makes reference to the feeling of fear we can state, therefore, that it demonstrates Pathos.

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