Based on structural elements, what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 Congressional address by President Woodrow Wilson exemplify?

I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be.

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Based on structural elements, what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 Congressional address by President Woodrow Wilson exemplify? 

I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be.

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A. persuasive essay
B. creative nonfiction
C. news article
D. personal memoir

anonymous · Answer

d.

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Are you for sure? I have to pass this and can't risk it being wrong

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Based on process of elimination I also think it's D.

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Thank you so much!

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This is not a personal memoir of Woodrow Wilson, and it isn't a news article. it's a persuasive essay written on an event..

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O gosh.. I have no clue what to pick now.