Read the excerpt from paragraph 4.

Question

Quite simply, Sailing Alone Around the World keeps gaining readers because it’s entertaining, even hair-raising!
How does the author use a rhetorical appeal to support the central idea of the passage?

Responses

The author makes a pathos appeal to invoke a sense of adventure and enjoyment through the use of emotive adjectives about Slocum’s journey.
The author makes a pathos appeal to invoke a sense of adventure and enjoyment through the use of emotive adjectives about Slocum’s journey.

The author makes a logos appeal to make a claim without the support of reasoning or valid evidence of Slocum’s skills.
The author makes a logos appeal to make a claim without the support of reasoning or valid evidence of Slocum’s skills.

The author makes a logos appeal to demonstrate Slocum’s ambition through the presentation of valid evidence of his skills.
The author makes a logos appeal to demonstrate Slocum’s ambition through the presentation of valid evidence of his skills.

The author makes an ethos appeal to question the value of Slocum’s journey in an attempt to discredit his book for future readers.

Answer 1

The author makes a pathos appeal to invoke a sense of adventure and enjoyment through the use of emotive adjectives about Slocum’s journey.