Read the excerpt from "a quilt of a country."
what is the connotative meaning of fault lines in this
excerpt?
once these disparate parts were held together by a
common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the
electrified fence of communism. with the end of the cold
war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for
hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would
evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen-african-
american, mexican-american, irish-american—would
overwhelm the right.
something powerful and threatening
something familiar and interesting
something harmless and pleasant
something amusing and impressive

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way