Question

Which of these uses pathos?

A. We are starving because the food, if you can call this slop "food," at our school is not fit for the lowest grub on this fine Earth!
B. All of the other schools in our district offer organic foods in the lunchroom; therefore, our school should offer organic foods as well.
C. Yum Organics has been providing well-rounded organic lunches to schools on the West Coast for more than 15 years.
D. The food at our school is O.K.; however, I wish we had more organic choices.

Answer 1

Pathos is a rhetorical device that uses emotions to convince its readers.
A, would be the best choice.

Answer 2

The first alternative is correct (A).

The phatos is a call to the emotion of the reader or interlocutor. In this sense, we use effect phrases that arouse different feelings. The appealing tone of this sentence can be perceived by the use of the expression " we are dying of hunger", which by the context, does not happen in a literal way. Those who die of hunger are the undernourished people of miserable countries, so the exaggeration represents the pathos.