Question

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker.

There is a cemetery near our family church where she is buried, but because her marker was made of wood and rotted years ago, it is impossible to tell exactly where her body lies. In the same cemetery are most of my mother’s people, who have lived in Georgia for so long nobody even remembers when they came. And all of my great-aunts and -uncles are there, and my grandfather and grandmother, and, very recently, my own father.

Which type of rhetoric does Walker use to show that she has strong roots in Georgia?

pathos
irony
ethos
zeugma

Answer 1

pathos — Walker appeals to readers’ emotions by describing family graves and long-standing ties to Georgia to emphasize her deep roots.