Read this line from Patrick Henry's speech: We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth – and listen to the song of the siren till she transforms us into beasts. What two rhetorical strategies does he most clearly use here? A. He uses parallelism to build pathos. B. He uses simile to emphasize logos. C. He uses personification to appeal to ethos. D. He uses metaphor to appeal to pathos.
In this passage, his main appeal is certainly pathos (emotion). This crosses out B and C. He does not exactly use parallelsim. Rather, he cites an ancient Greek myth and uses this as a metaphor.
