The rhetorical strategy used in the paragraph is pathos. Wilberforce appeals to the emotions of his audience by emphasizing the enormity and dreadful nature of the wickedness of the slave trade, aiming to evoke a strong emotional response that supports his argument for abolition.
"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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logos
logos
pathos
pathos
persuasion
persuasion
ethos
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