Based on structural elements, what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 Congressional address by President Woodrow Wilson exemplify

persuasive essay

creative nonfiction

news article

personal memoir

This excerpt is from Woodrow Wilson's 2 April, 1917 "War Message to Congress". Wilson emphasizes the importance of human lives over material thing by saying "I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved ... but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of noncombatants, men, women, and children". Applying the rhetoric in his speech Wilson uses persuasive language to make the nation enter the war with Germany.

Based on structural elements, the type of expository text that this excerpt from a 1917 Congressional address by President Woodrow Wilson exemplifies would be "persuasive" since it is appealing to evidence and reason.