Read the following topic sentence from an expository essay. Helping your neighbors is one simple and powerful way to volunteer in
your community
Which supporting detail would best develop this topic?
A. Many scouting organizations sell cookies or wrapping paper in
their neighborhoods.
B. Fulkerson Junior High School has over 300 members in its Parent
Teacher Organization.
C. A civic organization is one in which members join together to help
make a difference in their community.
O D. A Park Street resident says she couldn't get to work until others on
her street shoveled snow from her driveway.

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