The correct answer is A) Ethos.
These lines from the Declaration of Independence are an example of the use of Ethos.
We are talking about modes of persuasion that are used when a speaker wants to convince an audience.
Ethos is considered an ethical appeal. When the credibility or the character of the Speaker is enough to convince and audience. The other two are logos and pathos. Logos is the appeal to logic when we try to convince people using arguments, the reason. And Pathos is the emotional appeal when we want to pursue the audience by appealing to its emotion.
