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    used were Logos and Pathos. One of the modes that the Wendy's commercial used was logos. The mode logos mean "It is normally used to describe facts and figures that support the speaker's topic". Logos also means "Having a logos appeal also enhances ethos because information makes the speaker look knowledgeable and prepared to his or her audience.". Some examples from the commercial is that that Wendy's said "We believe you get juicier hamburgers that way" so this implies that they are trying to convince

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    The rhetorical strategies of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are used in the media every day to persuade society. Whether it be for sales, politics, or everyday news, these three styles of persuasion influence how people are affected by the media. Pathos targets an emotional response. This causes viewers to accept or reject a claim or idea based on how it makes them feel. This is a very effective form of persuasion, however it can be incredibly manipulative. Anne P. Beatty’s excessive use of pathos illuminates

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    people are dying because of not living a healthy lifestyle shows the appeal to emotions that the speaker used in his introduction. Then after that I found that he merged both the appeal to reason which is logos, and the appeal to authority which is ethos. By talking about how he found

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    2.) I think that ethos is the most important rhetorical proof to have for a persuasive speech. If you don’t have ethos or “credibility of the speaker”(Ethos, Pathos, Logos: 3 Pillars of Public Speaking) then how will your audience be persuaded if they can’t believe you or know that you are credible. While all of the rhetorical proofs would be good to have in any persuasive speech ethos would be a game changer if you didn’t have it. Right off the bat no one would believe you and your audience you

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    Ethos is the sacralization of the norms and institutions, by religion or social origin, on which the sociality of a group of people is based (Altan 1995:21). This term has been widely used by anthropologists who pointed their research toward the study of religion. Ruth Benedict in her book Patterns of Culture, refers to as ethos in order to name the cultural emotional order of a group of people (1950:31,86,233)1. Also Gregory Bateson (1958), in his study about an Iatmul-speaking village in Papua

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    A1: The three elements to effective arguments making under Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle model are ethos, pathos and logos. According to Jimmie Killingsworth (2005), the three elements share a “metaphorically spatial relationship to one another”. An effective persuasion normally takes all of the three elements into account, with sorts of evidences in Barack Obama’s speeches. Firstly, logos refers to the persuasion realized through reasoning, which is deemed as the core of argumentation. To be specific

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    When people want to persuade their audience, they try to prove they can be trusted, play with the audience’s emotions, or they try to provide straight truth. People commonly know these ways as ethos, pathos, and logos. Anybody can find ethos, pathos, or logos when they are reading something or watching an advertisement. Companies, authors, speakers, etc. always use these methods of persuasion when they want to get anybody’s attention. Back in the American Revolutionary period, for an actual revolution

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    Logos, pathos, and ethos are three Greek, ancient rhetorical arguments that are used frequently in today’s society. Advertisement are common used methods to persuade their potential customers to buy or support their product or idea. For example, skincare companies use proven facts to convince their customers that if they use their product, then their skin will look younger or feel younger; this is a form of logos, a term that refers to the use of logic and reason to support one's ideas. Instead of

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    well as Queen Elizabeth’s “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury.” Although they aren’t the same thing, they follow the same example: Appealing to their audiences through the use of ethos, pathos, and logos. They do this by using very exotic phrases (mostly the Dodge one). For example, in the ad for the Girl Scouts, they use ethos, pathos, and logos to appeal to things female children may find interesting. To start out with, they use a rhetorical question: “What did you do today?” They then go on to list

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    Ethos, pathos and logos influence every part of our lives from the time we wake up to the moment we fall asleep. These three advertising tactics are also the pillars of political speeches and other rhetorical media. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, ethos, pathos and logos are used to persuade many of the characters views on the conspirators plot and Caesar’s subsequent death. My independent speech, “Tear Down this Wall,” was given by Ronald Reagan on June 12, 1987

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