What is the best definition for repetition?

What is the best definition for rhetorical questions?

“Nory was a Catholic because her mother was a Catholic, and Nory’s mother was a Catholic because her father was a Catholic, and her father was a Catholic because his mother was a Catholic, or had been.”

What rhetorical appeal is used here:

"So here are just a few statistics on the human toll of illegal immigration. According to a 2011 government report, the arrests attached to the criminal alien population included an estimated 25,000 people for homicide, 42,000 for robbery..."

What is the rhetorical device in this example?

A boyfriend begs his girlfriend to stay with him, claiming "If you really love me, you'll give me time to change my ways."

 "As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results." This is an example of...

What is pathos?

An ethical appeal to establish credibility and trust.

Choose the rhetorical appeal that best fits the definition above.

An appeal to logic and reason.

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An appeal to emotions.

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What rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

What the author's purpose in writing an article about the beauty of the pumpkin patch in the full autumn season with leaves, fall flowers, and other items of fall?

Reality television is touted a genre of television programming which presents unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, document actual events, and have ordinary people instead of professional actors. However, critics argue that reality television shows do not accurately reflect reality since participants are placed in artificial situations and given scripts or story lines to follow. Other critics say reality TV make stars out of untalented people unworthy of fame. Many people still tune into their favorite reality TV show since it is fun to watch, but they take it with a grain of salt and put it in the same category as scripted sitcoms. What is the central idea of this passage?

In 1890 the first hairdryer was invented by French stylist Alexander Godefroy. His invention was a large, seated version that consisted of a bonnet that attached to the chimney pipe of a gas stove. Godefroy invented it for use in his hair salon in France, and it was not portable or handheld. It could only be used by having the person sit underneath it. This invention led to the first patent of a portable hair dryer in 1911, and handheld dryers finally arrived in homes around 1920. Hard to believe that before hair dryers could be mass produced at affordable prices, women would sit next to a stove or fireplace and some resorted to using hose attachments at the exhaust end of a vacuum cleaner to dry their hair! Hairdryers have come a long way over the years. What is the central idea of the passage?