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Examples Of Ethos Pathos Logos

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Modes of persuasion are rhetorical appeals used in writing to persuade an audience (Worthington 58). The rhetoric appeals are divided into three categories; ethos, pathos and logos. Writers and speakers alike must have the ability to use the three appeals within a text to persuade a particular audience. Ethos refers to the author’s or writer’s credibility. The writer or the author has to establish his or her credibility for the audience to consider his or her views. Pathos is appealing through the audience’s emotions. As an author or speaker, it is important to create a certain sense of curiosity and imagination in the audience’s minds in order to have them identify with the speech’s or text sentiments. Logos is the most important of the three …show more content…

Malcom gave this speech on April 12, 1964 during the civil rights movement. He had been invited to the King Solomon Baptist Church by Reverend Cleage, Milton and Richard Henley. His audience was mostly black people in Michigan and several white people who supported the civil rights movement (Campbell, Huxman, and Burkholder 54). The main aim of this speech was to enlighten African Americans to rise and empower themselves rather than keep relying on the white men who were continually oppressing them. Malcom was against the idea of integration and nonviolence. Though he never directly called for black people to take to arms, he challenged them to create their own political, economic and social systems and communities and assist one another as the black community. Malcom was trying to influence the black community to cease being passive and docile and instead be proactive in order for them to get their human …show more content…

He maintains a sense of elation and emotion as well as imagination throughout his speech. This he does through his description of economic and political philosophies that black people should adopt. He continually insist that for black people to rise out of oppression, they should desist integration and focus on separation. Just as the white people control all of the economic aspects in white community, black people should also control the economy in the black neighborhoods. He encourages black people to open up business, begin small and grow through self-help like the white people do in their neighborhoods. Malcom X was at this particular moment a Muslim minister in a new Mosque. This gives him authority as a respected head of an institution to speak on this particular issue. He cleverly disengages religion from the context and concentrates on the main issue which is Black Nationalism. Having been in the civil rights movement for a long time, the audience respect and give him undivided attention. This is the use of ethos rhetoric

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