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Read this excerpt from a students college application:
In addition to academic and extracurricular achievements in school, I am an involved member of my community. I volunteer at the local animal shelter every Saturday morning, and I help build houses for a nonprofit organization a few times a year with my family.
Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used here?
A.Text structure
B.Ethos
C.Parallelism
D.Inductive logic

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It's Ethos. I just took the test :/ 
mcarc09

The rhetorical device used in this excerpt is ethos.

Ethos is an ethical appeal. The writer appeals to what the reader probably considers right and wrong and suggests the he/she (the writer) is also a well-behaved, ethical person. The intention in this college application is to show the writer's character and credibility by having the reader follow a simple logical train of thought:

- This writer is a good person. He/she is altruistic and hard-working. Thus, he/she will be an asset for this institution.

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