And now the boy is turning to me. "Tell me," he asks, "what have you done with my future, what have you done with your life?" And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1986What rhetorical strategy is Wiesel using in this passage?A.Logos, to provide facts and evidenceB.Repetition, to prove a pointC.Ethos, to show that he is credibleD.Pathos, to appeal to our emotionsSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

And now the boy is turning to me. "Tell me," he asks, "what have you done with my future, what have you done with your life?" And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1986What type of appeal is Wiesel making in this passage?A.PathosB.QuestioningC.LogosD.Ethos

Read this passage:This is what I say to the young Jewish boy wondering what I have done with his years. It is in his name that I speak to you and that I express to you my deepest gratitude. No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1986What rhetorical strategy does Wiesel use in the conclusion of his speech to appeal to the emotions of the audience and leave the audience with a memorable image?A.He asks that the audience put themselves in his position.B.He allows the audience to ask questions about his experiences.C.He returns to the image of himself as a young boy.D.He provides facts about the number of deaths during the Holocaust.

What evidence from the text best represents the central point of Wiesel's Nobel Prize acceptance speech?A.We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.B.And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget.C.For I belong to a traumatized generation, one that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people.D.And then I explained to him how

Which excerpt best demonstrates Wiesel's use of rhetorical questions to conclude his argument in "The Perils of Indifference"?A.But this time, the world was not silent. This time, we do respond. This time, we intervene.B.Some of them so many of them could be saved.C.Does it mean that we have learned from the past? Does it mean that society has changed?D.And so, once again, I think of the young Jewish boy from the Carpathian Mountains. He has accompanied the old man I have become throughout these years of quest and struggle

Read this passage from Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast.Why does Wiesel speak about himself in the third person?A.It makes the speech less important.B.It shifts the focus to the audience.C.It shifts the focus to his difficult childhood.D.It makes him seem funnier.