Eating healthy foods and maintaining dental hygiene is an example of which rhetorical technique in a toothpaste advertisement?

The correct answer involves the rhetorical technique of transitioning from widely accepted healthy behaviors, like eating nutritious foods and practicing good dental hygiene, to suggesting a connection with the benefits of using a specific toothpaste. This technique plays on the audience's existing beliefs about health and hygiene, leading them to make an assumption that using the product is a necessary part of maintaining those healthy practices. The advertisement might imply that if you care about your health and hygiene, using this toothpaste is a logical step, which may not be a direct claim of the product's specific attributes.

In this context, while the choice about practical consequences could seem logical since it touches on health, the driving force here is the inferred connection that the product will fulfill an obligation implied by good health habits. This shift between commonly accepted ideas to questionable claims about the toothpaste’s effectiveness is what embodies the technique selected.