Question

The blood of his children shall curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. What persuasive technique is used in this passage from The Crisis by Thomas Paine? appeal to authority appeal to emotion appeal to ethics appeal to logic

Answer 1

It would be Appeal to emotion because cowerdice is a form of being scared, and scared is an emotion.

Answer 2

Answer: B) Appeal to emotion.

Explanation: there are many persuasive or rhetorical techniques used to convince the readers or the audience of a perspective or argument about a controversial topic. Three of the most used are ethos, logos and pathos, ethos is an appeal to the audience's ethics, logos is an appeal to the audience's logic and pathos is an appeal to the audience's emotions. In the given sentence the author is clearly appealing to the audience's emotions, by using the image of the blood of children.