Question

Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number I.

"Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, 'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.'"

Which phrase in the excerpt is an emotional appeal to the reader?
“Not a man lives”
“believes that a separation”
“let it be in my day”
“that my child may have peace”

Answer 1

I feel like the phrase with emotional appeal to the reader would be "that my child may have peace", since it goes for the reader's sympathy for the child.

Answer 2

The correct answer is D. “that my child may have peace”

Explanation:

In persuasive texts or speeches in which the author aims at convincing the audience about an idea, the emotional appeal is a strategy that focuses on manipulating or using the audience emotions rather than evidence or any other support to convince the audience about something. This includes using references to situations the author or speaker know are emotionally important for the audience or the use of words that evoke emotions. Considering this, in the excerpt the phrase that shows this type of persuasive technique is "that my child may have peace" because by using this reference the audience will feel sympathy for the speaker and also will think about their our children which will  lead to multiple feelings emerging and the audience supporting the speaker or author's idea of independence.