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    reason” Notably, throughout all his film, he makes use of Logos rhetoric form. He provides factual reasons to make the audience believe what he is trying to prove. He interviews real people that will prove his point with their testimonies. ETHOS: “The impact of ethos is often called the argument's 'ethical appeal' or the 'appeal from credibility.'” Many people knows Michael Moore, he is a public figure. He is an activist and a writer, people believe what he says because he already has fame as an activist

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    In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, logos, pathos, and ethos were all portrayed, but which one is the most powerful? Although logos, ethos, and pathos are all rhetorical appeals, they are dissimilar. Logos is based on evidence, pathos is based on the audience’s interests, and ethos is based on who the person is. The most powerful rhetorical appeal has to be pathos because of how easily the audience is influenced by it. In Julius Caesar, pathos is an extremely effective method used to get what

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    In my everyday life, I use pathos to persuade people. I find myself backing up anything I say with experience, particularly in the case of arguments pertaining to beliefs. I tend to use pathos most when speaking to someone about mental health issues or social issues. When talking to people about mental health problems, I am more likely to try and appeal to the listener as a person. This often leads me to telling personal stories, or the stories of other people who have suffered through a similar

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    Ethos, pathos, and logos are the three rhetorical strategies used in arguments to strengthen it. Atticus uses all three of the rhetorical strategies studies this year during his closing remarks to the jury, but his use of pathos really makes his remarks have a very powerful message. A quote from Atticus’s closing remarks that show his use of pathos is “Tom Robinson now sits before you, having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses”(Lee). In his closing argument Atticus brings up the

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    Honda Ethos Pathos Logos

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    Honda effectively uses pathos to persuade the audience to buy their car. The ad uses visual imagery to show the audience that the inner beauty of objects and people are often more interesting and important than their outer beauty. Pathos has a huge effect on an audience because people make many decisions based off of their emotions. The Honda ad attempts to affect their audience emotions to get them to buy their product. This ad uses many tools like visuals, sounds, and messages to affect the audience

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    The appeal of pathos is used in this article to evoke the emotions of the readers. There's different kinds of emotions the readers can feel from reading this article. she uses examples to strengthen the main idea and also to bring out the emotion. In the beginning of her Introduction she uses the word "slaughter" which reveals a terrifying scene on the reader's mind. She then gives examples of the type of crime juvenile committed, murdering, raping, and assaulting someone with harmful weapon. She

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    In Greek Pathos is said to mean suffering or experience which gives the emotional appeal to the reader. With Pathos you can use vivid or emotional language , and sensory details to give imagery and emotionally appeal the reader. Pathos can be used to change the audience opinion to whatever the author wants in the argument. In Fast Food Nation : The Dark Side Of All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser , Pathos is used to improve his argument and persuade the opinions of others. In Fast Food Nation

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    Ethos, Pathos, Logos Some of the most famous writers from William Shakespeare to John Green have used three different persuasive techniques for several years. Have you ever heard of ethos, pathos, and logos? In the famous tragedy of Julius Caesar the author William Shakespeare uses ethos, pathos, and logos for persuading something or someone. In Julius Caesar Shakespeare uses these traits in Brutus’s and Antony’s funeral speeches to persuade the citizens of Rome to hear them out. In the tragedy Caesar

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    In the article, “Princess Diana Dies in Paris Crash,” it consists of ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos means expert. Pathos means emotion. Logos means logic. The ethos in the article is BBC, a news broadcasting station. BBC received information on the car crash and received quotes from close family quickly because they remain located in London. In the article it says, “In a statement Buckingham Palace said the Queen and the Prince of Wales were “deeply shocked and distressed”.” In the article it states

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    Ethos,pathos and logos are three of the most powerful persuasions in writing and literature. Ethos which is the appeal of ethics, Pathos which is the appeal of emotion, and lastly Logos which is the appeal of logic. William Shakespeare the author of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and Christie Key the blood drive coordinator and leader of the sorority Gamma Phi Beta used all three of these appeals in their writings.Even though logos is strong, the most effective of the three appeals is pathos because

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