Read the following sentence from Robert F. Kennedy’s speech upon the death Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people want to live together in this country.
How does the author use rhetoric in the following sentence to advance his purpose that Americans should end prejudice behavior in America and start treating each other with respect?

A
By appealing to logic that most people desire to live together, but those that disagree are illogical and are destroying the forward movement to end prejudice behavior and and voluntary segregation.

B

By using pathos as a method to incite anger of those residents who choose to stay segregated.

C

By asking the reader a rhetorical question in order to encourage the reader to reflect on his or her own insecurities.

D

By using ethos as a method of citing a credible source in order to gain attention of the reader.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.