Hanes utilizes several rhetorical appeals. The dominant appeal is pathos which
Is defined as, generate emotions (fear, pity, love, anger, jealousy) that the writer hopes
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will lead the audience to accept a claim (Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and Walters 26). In the
introduction the author uses words such as, less imaginative, less spunky, and less
interested to describe the behavior changes that a mother noticing in her three year old
daughter. In another section Hanes uses words such as, unfeminine and unsexy to
describe the feelings that girls have in middle school about sports and that is the reason
young girls discontinue playing sports in their pre-teen years. In a different
Is defined as, generate emotions (fear, pity, love, anger, jealousy) that the writer hopes
Page 3
will lead the audience to accept a claim (Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and Walters 26). In the
introduction the author uses words such as, less imaginative, less spunky, and less
interested to describe the behavior changes that a mother noticing in her three year old
daughter. In another section Hanes uses words such as, unfeminine and unsexy to
describe the feelings that girls have in middle school about sports and that is the reason
young girls discontinue playing sports in their pre-teen years. In a different