As he opens his speech persuading his classmates to donate their used shoes to a charity, Jonah tells a brief story about a child who has no shoes and must walk to school barefoot. What type of information is he using to support his speech?

An anecdote

Explanation:

An anecdote is a brief, revealing account of an individual person or an incident. Anecdotes are short narratives intended to communicate an abstract idea of a person or thing.

Jonah here, tells a brief but compelling story about an occurrence of a child who has no shoes and walks to school barefoot in order to motivate his classmates to support the charity.