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Quick questions on Author's purpose and rhetoric - Grade 10 ELA MCAS

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What are the three classical rhetorical appeals, and what does each appeal to? [Recall]
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A charity's article opens with a child's hungry morning, then gives donation statistics, then notes it has run food programs for thirty years. Which appeals are used, and to what purpose? [Short explanation]

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