in persuasive speech‚ and writing. Letting the recipient of the speech or paper persuade the emotions or believes sway common reasoning to what author or speaker wants. When someone is using persuasion they need to use three basic principles Ethos‚ Pathos‚ and Logos. With the videos provided an in depths look on how rhetoric use all three of these principals. “Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks” is the first of the videos shown‚ and in the first few moments we see Ethos shown in the video. Ethos is
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“It Is That I Love Brutus More” Mark Antony and Brutus’ speeches both successfully used rhetorical strategies to manipulate Caesar’s funeral rabblement‚ but only one can be the winner‚ Brutus. With superior logos and pathos‚ he captivated his audience with a short and sweet delivery. Antony may have turned the crowd against Brutus in the end‚ but only had the opportunity to do so because his speech was after his opponent’s. In his speech‚ Brutus proved the better of the two when employing logos he says
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Arthur Miller in‚ The Crucible compares McCarthyism in America to witchcraft in Salem. History was repeated when both Arthur Miller and Johnathan Edwards write the tales of the dark-spiritual world. Edwards shows pathos while Miller uses logos ethos and pathos. Edwards is portraying pathos in “Sinners in the Hands of and Angry God”. He continues to show the people as negative sinful demons. In his argument Johnathan Edwards blast the Bible against his
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Mind Games The goal of argumentative writing is to persuade the audience that their ideas are valid or more valid then other authors. Greek philosopher and writer‚ Aristotle‚ divided persuasion into three sections: Ethos‚ Pathos‚ and Logos. These persuasion guidelines give readers a sense of credibility‚ emotion‚ and reasoning. Ethos is associated with credibility or ethical appeal (Ch. 3‚ Ethos). Does the author portray the characters as people who are worthy of respect? One problem with argumentation
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the war from causing further destruction. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary in order to stop the war. Karl T. Compton builds his argument in hopes to appeal to the audience’s emotional standpoint or pathos. Compton’s use of pathos was evident on the first page third paragraph in which he wrote “ I believe‚ that the atomic bombs saved hundreds of thousands- perhaps several millions- of lives‚ both American and Japanese..” This specific quote justifies the act of
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Born a Prince‚ Left a King Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped‚ turned upside down‚ and I’d like to take a minute‚ just sit right there‚ I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-air. These are the opening lines to the intro song of the television comedy “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”‚ that me and every 90’s kids with a TV has had memorized since the day we first heard it. Even as you read that first sentence‚ you can’t help but to rap the words‚ and hum the tune
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both illustrate pathos in their speeches in order to hearten the audience through their emotions to fight for their individual rights and freedoms. Pathos is presented in Old Major’s speech to appeal to the animal’s feelings about their cruel fate as animals. For instance‚ Old Major states‚ “the very instant that our usefulness has come
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demonstrating how kindly people feel of college‚ to help express his point. Another great way he uses pathos‚ is by using eye-catching adjectives to entice his readers. Words such as‚ “alarming” “gloomy” “the best reason” “rarely” and many more. The goal of pathos is to create a favorable emotional affection of the audience towards a certain side of an argument. The overall ability to achieve pathos is by drawing up audience emotions. There are various ways to achieve an emotional reaction in the audience
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In “Man Takes First Steps on the Moon” from The Times of London‚ the main purpose is to inform people about the moon landing in 1969. It appeals to use both logos and ethos by providing information about the moon landings. Since the newspaper has such a high reputation ethos is made right away. They will assume that the paper is trustworthy because of where they are getting the information from. The audience will believe that all the facts are reliable and correct. They are reaching a large audience
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John Downe In John Downe’s letter to his wife‚ he strategically establishes and develops ethos as well as pathos to convince her to join him in the United States with their children. Throughout the letter‚ Downe develops his credibility through his use of ethos which includes the repetition of “I.” “I have got a situation‚” “I dined with him‚” “I went into the market yesterday‚” all progress towards the establishment of his plausibility in his wife’s eyes. He provides his wife with examples
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