A. which excerpt from silent spring best appeals to readers’ pathos?
so it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns.

b. the town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. in autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines.

c. the countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them.

d. yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them. a grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

The correct answer is D. Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them. A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know.

Explanation:

The word Pathos originated in Ancient Greece and means "suffering", additionally Pathos refers to the speaker appealing to the emotions, feelings and previous experiences of the audience to convince them of some point or illustrate what is being explained. due to this Pathos is considered as a communication and persuasion technique. Considering this, in the case of option D., the author of "Silent Spring" Rachel Carson is appealing to the feelings and experiences of the reader related to the tragedies cause in different context by the use of pesticides as she expects the reader is familiar with this "this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we all shall know"

and by making the reader being aware of how communities suffer due to this issue "many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them". Thus, as Rachel Carson in "Silent Spring" during this excerpt (Option D) is appealing to the feelings and experiences of the reader, she is appealing to the readers' Pathos.

i think that the quotes in paragraph 11 contribute to the development of ideas because it provides a good reasoning of the central idea of the text.

the answer is culture