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Which of the following best describes how the speaker of the poem uses pathos to
describe Eben Flood's loneliness, frailty, and age,
"Where friends of other days had honored him,/A phantom salutation of the
dead/Rang thinly till old Eben's eyes were dim."
"So, for the time, apparently it did, /And Eben evidently thought so too;"
"To both of us, I fear, since last it was/We had a drop together. Welcome home!"
"Secure, with only two moons listening,/Until the whole harmonious landscape
rang--"

Respuesta :

The option that best describes how the speaker of the poem uses pathos to describe Eben Flood's loneliness, frailty, and age is:

  • "Where friends of other days had honored him,/A phantom salutation of the dead/Rang thinly till old Eben's eyes were dim."

What is Pathos?

Pathos refers to words that affect the emotions of readers. The emotions so triggered could be fear, love, pity, etc.

In the lines above, pathos is used in describing Eben Flood's frailty. His eyes were described as dim and he was identified as old. All of these appeal to the reader's emotions.

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