The rhetorical appeal that Emmeline Pankhurst uses the most effectively is the appeal to pathos, or emotion. Pankhurst demonstrates the purpose of her unorthodox methods of protest by using personal anecdotes, and connections. For example, Pankhurst sets the stage by describing a situation where “you have two very hungry babies”. On one hand you have the “patient baby”, and on the other, an “impatient baby”. The impatient baby “screams and kicks” and makes “everybody unpleasant” until it is fed. Then she explains that everyone knows which baby is “attended” to first. By using this personal connection, Pankhurst can more effectively communicate her goal that in the political world the “patient baby” won't be “attended” to first. It is those
