Lena Short

English

19 August, 19:22

Read the paragraph.

[1] Recently I read a magazine article about commercial airplanes that were still in use despite past mechanical issues. [2] In the past year, four airplanes with repeated mechanical issues caused accidents on the runway. [3] How could a responsible airline continue to operate a plane with a history of mechanical issues, knowing that they were continuing to cause runway accidents?

What rhetorical device is used in sentence 2?

a false dilemma

an appeal to logic

an appeal to authority

an ad hominem attack