The example of the gun loaded with cigarettes is an example of Pathos rhetorical appeal.
Answer: Option 3
Explanation:
Apart from literary writing works, many advertising companies also makes uses of rhetorical appeals to persuade its audience.
Pathos is a type of rhetorical appeal which is based on a person’s emotion to influence them. ‘Gun loaded with cigarettes’ this depicts that cigarettes are being loaded on a revolver and gun is a symbol of death.
Thus it makes a person aware of the fact that smoking kills. So if such rhetorical appeals are used, it warns a person about the effects of smoking.
