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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by polar bears not to be

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confused with solar bears which are much better at getting a nice tan which of [Polar bears holding solar panels]

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the following sentences is best described as an emotional appeal and

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here the potential answers....[mumbling]

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An emotional appeal is that

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just a discarded banana that has abandonment issues okay yeah we didn't [Shoe stepping on banana peel]

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think so an emotional appeal is when someone is appealing to your emotions

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we'll break that down a little more for you it's a statement a writer uses to

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influence the feelings of the reader keep in mind there's a difference

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between that and a statement that informs a reader prompting them to [Boy holding brains in each hand]

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change their mind on an intellectual level like hitting the brain, instead of the

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heart although we don't recommend you do either unless you know your partner [Girl kicks a boy]

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there is wearing proper protective gear so is A) an emotional appeal the 16th

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president of United States of America was Abraham Lincoln well that's just

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sort of sounds like a fact there's nothing emotional about this sentence, even if

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some slave owners were in fact emotional in the day he was inaugurated let's see [Slave owner sad at Lincoln's inauguration]

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what the other answer choices have to offer B) Buffalo first began to settle

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the plain in the late 1800s once again it's just stating of a fact, no emotion

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there might be something touchy-feely about it like maybe all those Buffalo [Buffalo carrying people into a room]

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settled the plain so they could open up a Children's Hospital but we can't

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grasp that from the original sentence so B) is out of here next C) The sign at

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the park says please keep your dog on a leash at all times, now you may think it's [Dog on a leash attached to a tree]

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inhumane to keep dogs on a leash or maybe you're more worried about all the

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people in the area if dogs are unleashed but either way that wouldn't be a [Man pointing to a stop sign]

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feeling the authors trying to convey he's just putting it out there reading

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signs letting us know what they say the only one here that's an emotional appeal

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is D) take a minute to consider life for the polar bears who have little fish

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to eat. The writer straight up asking you to take a sec to think about something [Answer D highlighted]

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and then paints a sad picture of some hungry hungry polar bears he's certainly [Polar bear with a fishing rod]

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trying to get us to feel for these guys which makes option D) the right one

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now if you'll excuse us it might be time to turn over [Sunburnt polar bears with solar panels]

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suntan 30 on you

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