Choose the sentence that would make the best topic sentence in a paragraph on credit cards. a. some banks start charging interest from the day consumers use the card. b. students should watch out for unexpected fees when they get a credit card. c. one credit card has no annual fee, but it charges ten dollars a month for maintenance. d. the interest rate can jump to nearly 60 percent per year.

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