The following from "an american idea" is an example of which type of persuasive appeal? "the idea was there at the very beginning, well before thomas jefferson put it into words—and the idea rang the call…jefferson himself could not have imagined the reach of his call across the world in time to come when he wrote…but over the next two centuries the call would reach the potato patches of ireland, the ghettoes of europe, the paddyfields of china, stirring farmers to leave their lands and townsmen their trades and thus unsettling all traditional civilizations. ".