by BlastRoom
Spot appeals to feeling, name the feeling aimed at, and judge when emotion is doing the work evidence should do.
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"I have taught here twelve years, and last month the roof fell in. Picture Mira, ten years old, doing her homework by candlelight, cold and frightened of the dark." Which appeal is dominant?
"I ran the barangay health center for nine years and I hold no contract here. I have never lied to this town. Believe me: the water is safe." Which appeal is dominant?
"Of the 240 students we surveyed, 190 walk home after dark. In two nearby towns, new street lights cut night accidents by half. Rizal Street should be lit." Which appeal is dominant?
"Lola Remy waited four hours in the sun for a bed. She is eighty-one. She is somebody's mother. Nobody should be made to wait like that." Which appeal is dominant in this letter?
"Our canteen throws out 30 kilograms of rice a week. This waste can be reduced. A smaller serving cup would cut that by half, and the savings would pay for the cups within a month." Which appeal is dominant?
"I have coached this team for fifteen seasons, and I once benched my own son for missing practice. When I say the new rule is fair to everyone, you know where I stand." Which appeal is dominant?
"Think of the sound of the last jeepney of the evening, the one your father rode home for thirty years. Take it away and you take away a piece of who we are." Which appeal is dominant?
"Rain fell on nineteen of the thirty days we tested. On every rainy day the covered walkway stayed dry and classes started on time. A second walkway would do the same for Building B." Which appeal is dominant?
"I am a nurse in this barangay and I have treated dengue here for eleven years. I will say plainly what I do not know, and I am selling you nothing." Which appeal is dominant?
"Cars on that road now pass at double the old limit. Every morning our neighbor's dog waits at the gate for a boy who is never coming home. That is what one careless driver left behind." Which appeal is dominant?
"You have paid your dues for thirty years. You cleaned these halls before dawn. Are you now to be told there is no room for you at the table?" Which appeal is dominant?
"Three of five vendors said their sales fell while the road was closed. Sales rose again the week it reopened. Closing the road again in December would repeat that loss." Which appeal is dominant?
"Our group has published its accounts every year since 2011, and any resident may inspect them at the hall. That is why we ask you to trust us with the relief fund." Which appeal is dominant?
"I have walked that path myself; it runs 600 meters without a single light. Imagine your own daughter on it. Imagine the phone ringing at midnight. Now vote." Which appeal is dominant in this closing?
"Ten pesos. That is all it costs to feed Ariel today. Ten pesos, or another night when he cries himself to sleep." Which appeal is dominant in this call for donations?
"If we do nothing, the same flood will be at your door next June, and your children will be on the roof again." Which feeling does this line mainly aim at?
"Our team came from a school with no gym, no coach and no shoes, and we finished second in the whole region." Which feeling does the speaker mainly aim at?
"You threw away half your lunch today. Ariza, three seats behind you, had none at all." Which feeling does this line mainly aim at?
"Do you remember when the whole street ate together every Christmas, before the wall went up?" Which feeling does this question mainly aim at?
"They took the playground while the children were at school, and they did not tell a single parent." Which feeling does this sentence mainly aim at?
"By next year this same empty lot could be a library, and the first card could carry your child's name." Which feeling does this line mainly aim at?
"The dog had waited three days beside the wreckage before anyone came for it." Which feeling does this detail mainly aim at?
"Everyone else on our street has already signed. Only your house is missing from the list." Which feeling does this line mainly aim at?
"The nurses worked through every night of the storm, and not one of them asked to be paid for it." Which feeling does this sentence mainly aim at?
"Dengue cases here tripled last quarter, from 14 to 43. Behind each of those numbers is a child in a hospital bed." Is the appeal to feeling legitimate here?
"Do not ask me for numbers. Ask yourself how you would feel if it were your own street under water. That should be proof enough." What is the appeal to feeling doing here?
"Three inspections found cracked beams in Building C. Sit in that room and you can watch the ceiling sag. No parent should have to wonder whether it will hold." What is the appeal to feeling doing?
"That new textbook is dangerous. I felt sick reading it, and any decent parent would feel the same." What is the appeal to feeling doing here?
"Of course the driver is innocent. Look at his family sitting in the courtroom, and his youngest child crying." Is this a legitimate use of emotion?
"The report shows 62 families still living in tents after nine months. Nine months is a whole rainy season in a canvas room." Is the appeal to feeling legitimate here?
"Anyone who questions this project hates our town. Do you really want to be that person?" What is this appeal doing?
"Two studies link the smoke to childhood asthma. If you have ever heard a child fight for air at night, you know why we cannot wait." What is the appeal to feeling doing?
A writer wants worried parents to accept a new crossing-guard schedule. Her draft is all statistics and no warmth. Which appeal should she add?
A speaker's plea for flood funds moves his audience to tears, but they still doubt the danger is real. Which appeal must he add?
Listeners find a young volunteer's speech both moving and well argued, but they ask why they should believe a stranger. Which appeal must she add?
A charity page shows a crying child and little else. Donors say they are moved, but they cannot tell how many children the group has fed. Which appeal is missing?
A student's essay on canteen prices lists costs, survey results and averages. Her teacher says nothing in it makes the reader care. Which appeal does the essay lack?
An engineer's report on a cracked bridge carries both feeling and figures, yet a councilor asks, "And who exactly is this person?" Which appeal does the report lack?
An appeal to feeling is legitimate when it adds force to a claim the writer has already supported with evidence.
An appeal to feeling proves that a factual claim is true.
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