Answer: A) an appeal to logic.
Explanation: When writing, an author can use several rhetorical devices in order to persuade, inform or impact the audience in the desired way. Three of the must used rhetorical devices are ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is an appeal to the audience's ethics, logos is an appeal to the audience's logic and pathos is an appeal to the audience's emotions. In the given excerpt from “How the Internet and Other Technologies Came About" we can see an example of an appeal to logic, because of the use of formal language and the fact that the excerpt focuses on the scientists and their necessities to rebuild the country.
