The rhetorical strategy used in the paragraph is pathos. This is evident as the speaker evokes strong emotional responses by highlighting the enormity and dreadfulness of the slave trade, appealing to the audience's feelings of horror and moral outrage.
"Wilberforce 1789 abolition speech"
by William Wilberforce
The number of deaths speaks for itself, and makes all such enquiry superfluous. As soon as ever I had arrived thus far in my investigation of the slave trade, I confess to you sir, so enormous so dreadful, so irremediable did its wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for the abolition.
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Which rhetorical strategy does the paragraph use to appeal to readers?
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Responses
pathos
pathos
ethos
ethos
persuasion
persuasion
logos
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