Question

Read the following excerpt from a speech by John F. Kennedy. Answer the question that follows.

In the last 24 hours we have seen facilities now being created for the greatest and most complex exploration in man's history. We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing of a Saturn C-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as the Atlas which launched John Glenn, generating power equivalent to 10,000 automobiles with their accelerators on the floor. We have seen the site where five F-1 rocket engines, each one as powerful as all eight engines of the Saturn combined, will be clustered together to make the advanced Saturn missile, assembled in a new building to be built at Cape Canaveral as tall as a 48-story structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as two lengths of this field.

This excerpt is an example of what rhetorical appeal?

Ethos
Logos
Pathos
Kairos

Answer 1

In the text, the rhetorical appeal used is Logos. This is because as you read through the text you notice the writer is using logic to make their points and using logical examples and reasoning.

Answer 2

Logos

The text speaks real facts and logic, it offers accurate data and specifics of the developments in space exploration, such as the testing of the Saturn C-1 booster rocket and an explanation of the facilities and technology used. By highlighting the scope and importance of the accomplishments in space exploration and presenting the developments in an understandable, factual manner, this appeal to logic seeks to persuade the audience.