Which type of rhetoric is being used to persuade the audience

A. Ethos

Explanation:

This is an appeal to ethics. To show that the director is going to do the right thing.

It is only logical that you call for help when needed, but there are too many other things that usually influence if such thing will be possible or not. It isn't Pathos because there's no emotional or empathetic appeal towards anyone in the text itself.  hyperbole is the figure of language that focuses when there is a purposeful exaggeration in a concept to define something dramatically, conveying an augmented idea of the authentic. Also, not the case.

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).

answer; $5.75.