Which statement best describes the rhetorical technique used in this excerpt? A. He appeals to logos by referring to two hundred years ago.
B. He uses parallelism with the repetition of the word too.
C. He appeals to ethos by showing he cares about Americans.
D. He employs understatement by saying that “many” feel burdened.

answer: i think it is saying that “the young man hopes she will be free. him escape signal him the door with the lady give him a ring run away with him.

explanation: i ask myself in my head and think and think until i found this

they both lost a woman they loved named lenore

they believed they interracted with a talking raven

they became orphaned at a young age.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.