Read the excerpt from silent spring. there had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. which best describes how this excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the sentence proves that the author is knowledgeable. the sentence creates an image of children at play. the sentence discusses the death of children. the sentence offers facts about diseases adults contract.

This excerpt has been taken from the Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, an environmental science book. The book mentions the adverse effects of pesticides and accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation. Also, she mentions the negative and powerful effects that humans have on the natural world, being the main theme.

Hence, from the above excerpt sentence which best describes that appeal to the reader's emotion is the sentence discusses the death of children. It mentions how children also become the target of sudden death while at play and would die in a few hours.

an argumentative essay presents objectively a topic and its main characteristics. besides, it states all this information and facts by giving authentic and substantiated proof to the audience. by contrast, a persuasive text purpose is to convince the audience about some facts by presenting them according to his/her emotions and feelings. the main purpose of a persuasive text is to convince the audience to agree with the author´s opinion. on the other hand, in the argumentative essay, the author leads the writer to recognize his/her point of view as the correct one.