In addition to academic and extracurricular achievements in school, i am an involved member of my community. i volunteer at the local animal shelter every saturday morning, and i build houses for a nonprofit organization a few times a year with my family. which rhetorical device is used most clearly here?

"The rhetorical device used in this excerpt is ethos.

Ethos is an ethical appeal. The writer appeals to what the reader probably considers right and wrong and suggests the he/she (the writer) is also a well-behaved, ethical person. The intention in this college application is to show the writer's character and credibility by having the reader follow a simple logical train of thought:

- This writer is a good person. He/she is altruistic and hard-working. Thus, he/she will be an asset for this institution."

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.