Hello Jaileen,
I liked the title for your essay it gave me high expectations for the rest of your essay. Well, you definitely did not disappoint me. The way you worded the rhetorical appeals, ethos, logos and pathos as a question was awesome. It, in my humble opinion, made me think that you could have a career in public speaking or as a motivational speaker. Also, thanks for the definition of the discipline of rhetoric from Reading The World, Ideas That Matter.
Secondly, it was encouraging and refreshing to see that you took a very different approach to the structuring of your essay. You grouped according to the rhetorical tools, ethos, logos and pathos for the three videos. For example, you started with logos and reminded us of its meaning.
As I began to read this article I noticed that logos was definitely used as one of the rhetorical appeals. The author attempts to persuade his audience by making a claim and providing some type of proof after each claim. For example, “Papa John’s says it has been pulling advertising associated with the NFL. The league, it says, has given some feature spots in return.” This quote was provided after the author mentions how, “Papa John’s is no longer going to advertise with the NFL.” The first example of how he makes a logical appeal. At the end of the article he also mentioned race, stating that “Most whites are not racist,” and how “To accuse so many of it is to see those fans simply walk away from the game.” That is a pathos appeal or in other
Walking in a bland hallway of brown coloration and narrow walls on both sides, the legs and the lower portion of their bodies are seen walking forward, distant from one another. The closest man to the viewer is holding a large assortment of long chained prison shackles, that are dangling behind him as he walks. Depth of field shows the man with the chains walking farther away from the viewer, and instantly grabs your attention. All those walking in this picture are uniformed in a light peanut brown color, wearing dark brown boots. Based from the thickness and shape of the boots, the four people in this picture are men, wearing required uniforms based required by their career professions.
Opening sentence____. In the scientific article “ “, xxx essentially argues. _____. Aiming for the specific audience of educated people, xxx proficiently applies rhetorical techniques of appealing to ethos and logical appeal, and creates a convincing and alarming tone.
Connection, trust, and facts make up the basis of how to persuade, which is vital for science, writing essays, and many other fields. Trust is depended on bias and experience of a subject, this is a tool of persuasion called ethos. For example, Mr. North (a teacher who has taught for many years) would have a more convincing ethos than a new teacher on the subject of students. While ethos is important, facts and statistics, logos, are considered more trustworthy than status of a figure. Logos include evidence that are supported to help prove a point, a fact or statistic could be: students are more likely to succeed if they are working in groups. Connections are the most major tool of persuasion. Pathos uses connection to cause emotions, this
In this image (figure 2) pathos is the main element that have been used in order to make the image more effective and successful. The emphasis of pathos in this image is in the color and the situation that every side has. The image shows a representation of unhealthy and healthy, contaminated and purity, ultimately life and death. When the audiences see the right side with all this healthy, purity and bright environment they will feel good and exultant because the colors make the psychological comfort. While when they see the other side with the unhealthy, contaminated trees with out leaves it makes them feel bad and scared from losing the environment.
A child is holding a gun. That’s a shocking sight to see, but what’s ironic is the text shown above the child and the object the other girl next to her is holding. It’s clear that the members of the organization is against guns being legal. They’re targeting parents as their audience because they know that demographic can relate to the image. The organization employs pathos to appeal to the viewer’s emotions, values, and beliefs by having children in the image; they want to convince people that guns should be banned.
While the authors of these essays execute remarkable examples of rhetorical analyses, I myself could definitely improve on my own essays. For instance, my writing can be vague, especially when explaining how the rhetorical
Rhetoric’s are used in every occurence of our lives whether we are aware of them or not. From the way we greet new ideas and thoughts, to the way we function with already existing notions, regardless, rhetorics have incorporated into our daily life from the first few months of our lives. The dictionary recognizes rhetorical to mean ‘the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.’ What’s the main concept to explore of rhetorics, are the main uses and techniques that are commonly used.
Rhetorical tactics Our appeal is appeal to pathos and ethos. In the image of our presentation, the child wears body armor that target is painted on the chest. Since people see this picture, we can deliver the message that our children are not safe, and they actually live in dangerous daily life. Since we bring the data from Chicago tribune, we can convey more trust-worthy tone to audience to convince them that gun violence is serious social problem, and this problem exactly aims at our children’s life.
The appeal to logos, ethos, and pathos are used everyday in many instances. A commercial is just one instance, and Gatorade commercials use them very well. The specific Gatorade commercial I chose to use was the one where Kevin Durant has a nightmare about being blocked by Dwyane Wade that aired in 2013. Kevin Durant doesn’t want that dream to come true so he practices very hard all while using Gatorade products. Meanwhile Dwyane Wade has a nightmare that he gets dunked on by KD, so he decides to use Gatorade products while he practices. The commercial is essentially saying that if you use Gatorade products that you will achieve your goals easier, and be more like the great NBA players that use the products as well.
Women are always told to be feminine, while men are supposed to be masculine, and 59% of both genders think it’s important. It can be sentimental for women who don’t think of themselves as a feminine being, but it is a fact and also agreed upon by the majority of people. Sojourner Truth is fighting for gender equality and she’s speaking directly to women rights activists. This speech was made in 1851, which made it rough to even have this speech be noticed as her being a woman of color. She was a good speaker and spoke in a serious tone.
My speech was about the ability to be different and how we can have that opportunity without being judged. By using ethos I can represent how i am as a person and by repeating the words “The most” I am showing the audience that i am not just an average person quite the opposite i am a complete mess. I establish logos by using a percentage of a survey in a high school with over 2,000 student using this information i am showing that is actually really common that people feel like nowan knows who they completely are and that way it is connecting to the audience by creating sympathy and anger against the people who are making them not be there true self. I frame the Pathos when i answer the rhetorical questions because when i was asking those
As you go through an essay there are many important pinpoints in making it accurate. As a writer, keep in mind what type of essay is being written and think about how to make the writing appeal to the readers, along with how it should make them feel. Authors want to make the writing relate to the writer in some way, whether it be through pathos, ethos, or even logos. To start, the first way to make a reader relate to writing is by using pathos. There are many ways in which to incorporate pathos into a writing based on what kind of audience is being reached.
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.” (King, 3) “Where they will not be judged by the content of their character.” (King, 3) On August 28, 1968.
I decided to just completely focus on the pathos of it instead of logos, and ethos as well. Writing this essay really changed my understanding of rhetoric. Coming into this English class and writing this, I knew nothing about rhetoric. This essay helped me understand more in-depth communication and persuasion, even without a voice. It has got me thinking differently about how to communicate in other ways.