Which sentence best improves the paragraph by adding
specific evidence?
Read the paragraph fr...
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Which sentence best improves the paragraph by adding
specific evidence?
Read the paragraph from a student's rhetorical analysis
essay.
In addition, President Obama uses strongly loaded or
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
emotion. He reasons that the horror of the images from
Syria must lead nations to take action. He asks the
American people to consider the facts 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 II
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 the argument that "if we fail to act, the Assad
regime will see no reason to stop using chemical
weapons."
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