25:09 Read the paragraph from a student's rhetorical analysis
essay
Which sentence best improves the paragraph by
adding specific evidence?
In addition, President Obama uses strongly loaded on
connotative words to conjure vivid images in his
audience's mind and further his appeal to emotion. He
punctuates his argument by saying, "When dictators
commit atrocities, they depend upon the world to look
the other way until those horrifying pictures fade from
memory, but these things happened. The facts cannot
be denied." Here Obama appeals to logic as well as
emoton. He reasons that the horror of the images from
Syria must lead nations to take action. He asks the
American people to consider the facis of what they
have seen and support military action to stop what is
happening in Syria
O He reminds the audience of the nature of chemical
weapons and cites an international agreement made
in 1997 to abolish their use throughout the world.
He describes deadly gas used in World Wars I and Il
to kill 'on a mass scale" and such weapons make
"no distinction between soldier and infant."
He paints a horrifying portrait of the aftermath of the
massacre where people are "foaming at the mouth,
gasping for breath."
He uses ihe argument that "if we fail to act the
Assad regime with see no reason to stop using
chemical weapons."
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