Read the short speech made by a hopeful candidate for class president. the class of 2018 needs a president who will get every student involved in our activities. last year’s class carnival was attended by only fifteen percent of our freshman class! if we continue at this rate, our prom will be the worst-attended event in school history. as a student athlete, environmental club leader, and honor society member, i am a candidate who represents a wide range of classmates. if you are frustrated because your ideas fall on deaf ears, then i encourage you to vote for me and allow me the opportunity to speak for you. which sentence from the speech includes an appeal to ethos? (a) last year’s class carnival was attended by only fifteen percent of our freshman class! (b) if we continue at this rate, our prom will be the worst-attended event in school history. (c) as a student athlete, environmental club leader, and honor society member, i am a candidate who represents a wide range of classmates. (d) if you are frustrated because your ideas fall on deaf ears, then i encourage you to vote for me and allow me the opportunity to speak for you.

C) As a student athlete, environmental club leader, and honor society member, I am a candidate who represents a wide range of classmates.

Explanation: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are modes of persuasion used to convince audiences. Pathos is the appeal of the audience's emotions, Logos is the appeal of the audience's logic and Ethos is the appeal to the audience's ethics, an appeal to ethos means to convince an audience of the author's or speaker's credibility, which in the given speech is represented by the sentence: As a student athlete, environmental club leader, and honor society member, I am a candidate who represents a wide range of classmates. By emphasizing in the different activities the candidate does, it helps convince the audience of his credibility.

The answer is  C) As a student athlete, environmental club leader, and honor society member, I am a candidate who represents a wide range of classmates

Explanation:

Ethos appeal or Ethical way to convice entails introducing your expertise and  accomplishments. As you can see, the third options is giving the accomplishments --student athlete, club leader, etc...-- so as to convince the audience to vote for her/him. The other options are suing Pathos, as she/he is using the emotional appeal so that the audience can feel pity for last year's prom and think about this year's prom.