Examples Of Ethos Pathos Logos

Besides a beginning, middle, and end, every great story contains three main things: pathos, ethos, and logos. Pathos in Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss varies from child to adult. A child may experience pathos or emotion in the form of happiness as they read about the silliness of the characters and laugh at the illustrations. An adult, however, may experience extreme annoyance from rereading the same obnoxious phrase over and over again. Adults may also be transported through the words of the great Dr. Seuss back to their childhood and experience the book with a childlike joy as they reread the words once read to them.

The rhetorical device that I thought was most effective was his use of Pathos. I believe his purpose for using this type of rhetoric is to reach the heart of those he was writing to in hopes of moving them so much so that they feel a, “call to action,” so to speak. While some may argue that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s(MLK) use of logos was most effective, I disagree because while it is possible to persuade someone with logic, wouldn’t you feel compelled to act immediately if something moves your heart rather than waiting for your brain to convince your heart and then act. For example, in paragraph 7, it states, “We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God given rights.” as well as, “when you suddenly find your tongue

Aristotle also believed that rhetoric can be forensic, epideictic, and deliberative, which is the second division of his work. The art of persuasion and a way of advising about things to come is the best definition of deliberate rhetoric. This pattern has been used throughout the film and it is another obvious appeal to make it more effective and achieve its goals. Aristotle argues that “for using deliberative rhetoric, the speaker needs to consider deterrents, inducements and the motives people have for avoiding or doing the actions in the question”

Pathos/ethos/logos A lot of pathos were used a lot by Donald trump in the debate. For example, trump was trying to persuade to the people that the stop and frisk law would work. He was coming off in the debate, like that would be the only thing that stops the crime in the inner cities. Hillary was also trying to convince to the crowd how trump was a racist (which is true) and how he disrespects women. Donald trump also began interrupting Hillary while she was talking in her debate, when he felt she was saying something that got to him.

Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Subject are 5 different interactions that is shown throughout literature. SOAPS is the acronym for these 5 interactions. Rhetoric is when you or someone were to be persuading a person with writing or speaking to them. Rhetoric is broken down into 3 different types of appeals which are ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos means appeals to ethics-convincing someone with previous experience (Ex. Doctor), logos means appeals logic, and pathos is appeals to emotions. Both the rhetoric appeals and the 5 different interactions can be mixed into a form of writing. These 5 different interactions and the 3 different types of appeals can be found in variety of texts like the texts that had interactions with the moon landing in the late 1970s. Those of which are the printing press writing about the moon landing, a speech that was prepared by President Nixon if needed to be stated, a person stating his opinion of the rocket ship taking flight, and a drawing created to be a political cartoon.

Direct proofs are tangible evidence used to support the speaker’s argument. Direct proofs serve as evidence for the speaker’s proposition. These proofs range from the overall argument, to facts and statistics or simply the words within the speech. Direct proofs also contribute to the logical reasoning of the argument. Logos is a form of a direct proof. Logos describes a mode of persuasion based on logical reasoning. This uses reasons to back up the speakers ideas. These reasons make a logical appeal to the truth. According to Aristotle (3) logos is an “apparent proof, provided by the words of speech itself.” Logos stands for all physical parts of the speech and its arguments, such as the content, words, and logic of the speech.

Effective Persuasion Thesis Statement: Aristotle and Thomas Paine convey their points of view through their appeals to logos, ethos, and pathos. In “Common Sense” Thomas Paine argues that Americans need to rebel against the King of England and take back the freedom they deserve. Thomas Paine adamantly uses appeal to logos because he wanted any individual who reads his pamphlet to understand his point of view. Aristotle, on the other hand, argued that in order to achieve an upstanding rhetorical argument one must use logos, ethos, and pathos.

Aristotle wrote that we can be persuaded by three things: reason (logos), the character of the speaker (ethos), and our own emotions (pathos).

use of ethos, logos, and pathos bring hope and empathy to the American people. President Reagan presents himself as a truthful leader by noting that we are very open about the events that occur within our space program. Reagan wants to gain the trust of the people by letting them know he will be sure to communicate with them as events within the space program occur. In his speech, Reagan emphasizes to the people that, “We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public” (6).

As first stated by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, the art of rhetoric in persuasive speaking is based upon the usage of the three key components, logos, ethos and pathos. Logos representing the usage of logic and reasoning within the speech or text, ethos representing the writer or speaker’s credibility and pathos representing how the speaker or author establishes an emotional connection with the audience. In former president Bill Clinton’s 2012 democratic national convention he relies heavily upon Aristotle’s persuasive speaking techniques to help convince the participants of the convention and those watching at home to reelect the nominee of the Democratic Party, current

Aristotle emphasizes the use of words to persuade an audience rather than using facts, statistics, and instruction. As long as one can string together a logical and appealing argument while conveying themselves as a credible source, they can move their audience. These are simply known as Logos, Pathos, and Ethos, respectively (Williams). Aristotle believes the reason that these three rhetorical appeals will prevail over arguments based on knowledge. This is due to the fact that arguments of this kind imply the act of instructing one’s audience about the given topic and “there are people whom one cannot instruct” (Aristotle). He reasons that one is more likely to understand a topic if it is catered towards them versus if they are simply presented

Aristotle’s rhetorical strategies can help a writer achieve the art of persuasion. John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech is a perfect example of this. In

Aristotle’s idea of rhetoric is invention or the faculty of finding the best mean of persuasion in the particular case. Aristotle stated that there are two means of invention one is artistic and the other is nonartistic. The nonartisic form of invention is something that already exists prior to speech; something that can be applied. The artistic form of invention is made up of three proofs which are logos, pathos, and ethos. There are three types of proofs artistically created by a speaker, “those which demonstrated that a thing is so (logos), those which depend for their effectiveness or believability or the speaker (ethos), and those designed to sweat a listener’s feelings (pathos)” (Golden 68). The threefold analysis of invention by Aristotle’s

Aristotle has an idea that there are three rhetorical appeals people can use to persuade someone else – ethos, pathos and logos. Each of them is very useful and the persuasion will be most effective when three of them are all used. Amy Tan used all in “Mother Tongue.”

Killingsworth (2005) asserts that in heading toward a revision, Aristotle's categories might still prove useful. One hint toward a new direction comes from James Kinneavy. In his Theory of Discourse, Kinneavy connects ethos, pathos, and logos with other elements in a generic model of the rhetorical situation (Killingsworth, 2005). He notices that Aristotle’s ethos focuses on the author, the attractiveness of the character and the authority the author inspires, pathos involves the audience, especially the emotions of the audience; and logos involves references to the world ("reality") shared by the author and audience (Killingsworth, 2005). Logical proof comes from the line of argument in the speech. Ethical proof is the way the speaker’s character is revealed through the message, and emotional proof is the feeling the speech draws out of the