7. Which excerpt from "Earth's Eye" best represents an appeal to emotion? ... I have tried to emphasize the intimate historical connections
between town, woods, and pond.
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many pilgrims who came to see his Walden housesite were outraged
by the commercialism.
Crowds grew much larger once the Concord Bypass (Route 2) cut
through Walden Woods ...
The county commissioners in charge of the pond were blamed for
neglecting the erosion problem...

B). 'Many pilgrims who came to see his Walden house site were outraged  by the commercialism.'

Explanation:

Pathos is described as the 'emotional appeal' in which the author attempts to convince the audience to accept and believe their claim by evoking their emotions.

As per the question, the excerpt 'many pilgrims...commercialism' represents the use of pathos or appeal to emotion as it attempts to convince the readers about the 'negative impacts of commercialism' by evoking their emotions by using the descriptive words like 'outraged' and encourage them to 'live a simple life in solitude and unity of nature.' Thus, option B is the correct answer.

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