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Read the excerpt from paragraph 1.


We remember a time when the Potomac River was choked with algae. When Lake Erie was dying. When too many coastal waters were degraded. When too many urban rivers and beaches were open sewers. When too many communities didn't have clean, safe water they could depend on.


Which two statements describe how Gore uses rhetoric to advance a point of view in this paragraph?



He uses the bandwagon appeal to suggest that he is part of a group of people who are making good environmental choices.



He uses ethos to establish credibility and build the audience's trust about his environmental expertise.



He uses logos to build a reasonable argument about the importance of environmental policy.



He uses parallelism to emphasize some of the environmental problems Americans had to solve.



He uses figures of speech to encourage the audience to imagine new environmental futures.



He uses pathos to provoke the audience's emotional response toward environmental problems.

Respuesta :

The two statements that describe how Gore uses rhetoric to advance a point of view in this paragraph are:

  • He uses parallelism to emphasize some of the environmental problems Americans had to solve.
  • He uses pathos to provoke the audience's emotional response toward environmental problems.

In this passage, the author Gore used the rhetorical appeals of parallelism ad pathos. Parallelism is the repetition of the same grammatical forms in a series of sentences.

The repetition of 'When' allows for parallelism.

Also, pathos, which is an appeal to emotions was used to stress the former pitiable condition of the people.

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