Read the excerpt from Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address.
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
The passage uses pathos as a rhetorical appeal. What was Franklin D. Roosevelt hoping to convey to his audience by using this appeal?
That the situation is merely at the surface level and doesn't have any urgency needed
That the situation is scary, and no one knows what to do
That the situation is dire and collective action is needed
That the situation only concerns material things and is not as bad as people think