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Read the following excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government."

Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them [unjust laws]. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse.

Which of these rhetorical devices does Thoreau most clearly use here?

A. Rhetorical question
B. Ethos
C. Logos
D. Metaphor

Respuesta :

C. Logos
 
because Thoreau appeals to the audience by using logic and/or reason

Logos because Thoreau appeals to the audience by using logic or reason.

What did Henry David Thoreau do to resist the Civil War?

Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to the Civil Government (1849) The United States went to war against Mexico in May 1846. That July, while living at Walden Pond, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax as a protest against the conflict, for he saw the war as an effort to extend the realm of slavery.

What is the resistance to civil government by Thoreau?

“Resistance to Civil Government” is Henry David Thoreau’s literary effort at grappling with the limitation and control that the government, and occasionally, the people themselves, impose. But what Thoreau is trying to do is illustrate that the government can and should be better than it is.

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