Based on structural elements, what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 Congressional address by President Woodrow Wilson
exemplify?
I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of
the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern
history, been deemed Innocent and legitimate. Property can be paid for the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be.
ОА.
persuasive essay
ОВ.
creative nonfiction
Ос.
news article
OD. personal memoir