Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled. How does Stanton use pathos as a rhetorical appeal? by describing one young woman's unfulfilled potential by emphasizing the injustices endured by women by explaining laws that govern marriages by establishing her authority to question the status quo

In this excerpt from Declaration of Sentiments, Elizabeth Cady Stanton uses pathos as a rhetorical appeal by emphasizing the injustices endured by women.

It is called pathos to a mode of persuasion that is achieved when the speech stirs the emotions of the hearers. In other words, pathos appeals to the emotions of the audience so as to convince them to support the writer's argument.

In Declaration of Sentiments, a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men, Stanton accomplishes an emotional appeal by putting passion in the delivery of the speech. She emphasizes the injustices endured by women by using phrases such as "a long train of abuses and usurpations" and "such has been the patient sufferance of the women" in order to stir the emotions of the readers and make them support the women's struggle for their rights.

This passage uses the pathos rhetorical appeal by emphasizing the injustices endured by women, and conveys an angry tone.