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questions 11-20. read the following passage from thomas paines the crisis.(1776) carefully before you choose your answers.questions 11-20. read the following passage from thomas paines the crisis (1776) carefully before you choose your answers.these are the times that try mens souls. the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. what we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right not only to tax but to bind us in all cases whatsoever; and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to god.i have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that god almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. neither have i so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that he has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as i do not, i cannot see on what grounds the king of britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he.tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. all nations and ages have been subject to them. britain has trembled like an ague at the report of a french fleet of flat-bottomed boats; and in the fourteenth fifteenth century the whole english army, after ravaging the kingdom of france, was driven back like men petrified with fear; and this brave exploit was performed by a few broken forces collected and headed by a woman, joan of arc. would heaven it were possible for us to stand without fear as well as without reproach! for, according to the proverb, the devil take the hindmost, though it may be applied to persons, yet it is very true when applied to nations.the heart that feels not now is dead: the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. i love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to bind me in all cases whatsoever to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.what persuasive appeal is paine making in the second paragraph?select one:a. appeal to ethosb. appeal to logosc. appeal to pathosd. all of the above

Explanation:

The second paragraph of Paine's The Crisis focuses on evoking emotional responses from the reader. Paine uses vivid, charged language to frame the choice between independence and subjugation as a moral, emotionally fraught struggle, leaning on shared feelings of duty, fear of oppression, and desire for liberty to persuade. This aligns with an appeal to pathos, which targets the audience's emotions. Ethos focuses on credibility, and logos on logical reasoning, which are not the primary focus here.

Answer:

c. Appeal to pathos