Question

But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

—"O Captain! My Captain!"
Walt Whitman

Which type of rhetorical appeal do these lines from “O Captain! My Captain!” use?

ethos, because the speaker wants the country to remember its purpose
logos, because the speaker uses facts to argue for the end of the Civil War
pathos, because the speaker wants the reader to feel sad about the captain’s death

Answer 1

pathos

Explanation: they aren't literal and they hit the audience's emotions