Please answer and explain why. Don't just give the answer.

Read the passage.

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered . . .

In this passage from The Crisis, Paine was employing which persuasive technique?


appeal to ethics


appeal to logic


appeal to emotion


appeal to authority

Respuesta :

Appeal to emotion. He's trying to manipulate people's emotions by saying things like ""deserves the love and thanks" which is very positive. Who wouldn't want to be loved and thanked by others? I think he's trying to say that if you fight, you will be honored.

Appeal to ethics is when the writer tries to convince the reader that he is knowledgeable about the subject like if he said, "As a doctor...." But he doesn't refer to himself in this passage.

Appeal to logic would be using facts, reasoning, evidence, and stuff, but I don't see a lot of facts here.
 
Appeal to authority would be him saying that because another person said something, it must be true. But he doesn't refer to anyone else here.