An emotional appeal (pathos) is a method of persuasion that is meant to create an emotional response. Which of the following is an emotional appeal? Question 5 options:

a) Reading provides knowledge. You can learn to do new things by reading.

b) Don't let life pass you by while everyone else is enjoying the benefits of reading.

c) Readers are 17% more likely to volunteer their time at a charitable cause.

d) Did you know that some people don't do their reading assignments? It's shocking, but it's true.

B). Don't let life pass you by while everyone else is enjoying the benefits of reading.

Explanation:

Aristotle gave three distinct rhetorical appeals that the author's employ to persuade the readers. These appeals include ethos, pathos, logos that primarily intends to appeal to the emotion, ethics, or logic of the audience and convince them to believe and accept the ideas portrayed by the author/speaker.

Pathos or emotional appeal is exemplified as the literary device that targets the audience emotionally and persuade them to elicit desired emotional response from them.

As per the question, option B exemplifies the use of 'pathos' as it attempts to appeal to the emotional aspect of the audience by employing suggestive descriptions like 'don't let life pass' by the time 'others enjoy life' that would evoke the emotions of the readers and elicit desired (emotional) response. The other options either employ logos (through facts and statistics), or ethos to persuade the audience. Therefore, option B is the correct answer.