Pathos In The Way We Get By Aron Gaudilly

Pathos is an emotional appeal in which the advertisers hope that the consumers will allow their claim. Say for instance most people will notice a puppy behind what looks like to be a rusty cage. Seeing a cage like that, makes some wonder how bad the conditions are that the puppy is living in. then there is the puppy who

Pathos is the rhetorical device where the speaker emotionally motivates their audience. Henry uses pathos as a way to arouse fear and hatred of the British, but also to spark a devotion and willingness to fight for their “country.” The use of pathos allows for the colonists to feel Henry’s patriotism and his sense of pride to fight against the British

A rhetorical appeal that is present is Pathos because it appeals to the audience's emotions. Brent Staples tells us how when he is walking down the street he is thought of as a “muggar, a rapist or worse.” The addition of the word worse is striking to me. How could someone be worse than a rapist? In the eighth paragraph he says he was mistaken as a burglar in the building he worked in. Upon reading this I was confused and angry that someone could automatically see a young black male and think of

Pathos is the easiest rhetoric to use when persuading a reader because it is turning the reader`s emotion against the reader. Both the letter and the memoir can recall specific details, some of the most terrifying to remember. Wiesel says, “from the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me,” (115). Night causes a

Pathos is a rhetorical appeal in which the writer tries to gain the readers attention by using emotions. The writer will give examples or information that will make the readers feel a certain emotion. For example, when you see the commercial of the ASPCA many people feel the need to donate because they see the suffering animals. It's a great way to get readers to agree with what you are saying because emotion gets the best of most people. I tried using this appeal in almost all my essays in order to get the readers to agree with me.

In “The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes,” Malcolm Gladwell makes a pathos appeal to the audience using scene and tone to really intrigue the intended audience by messing with their emotions. Gladwell uses dialogue throughout the chapter to help show his use of pathos also. Of course there are the other two appeals of ethos and logos used in this chapter, but pathos is what really stuck out to me. Gladwell’s use of pathos really enhances the text and hits the reader at an emotional level, making them more interested in the section. Pathos is what authors use to basically have the reader become emotionally attached to the piece.

Lastly, Pathos is when a writer tries to use the emotions of the audience, sometimes using senses, to make them sympathize with his argument. Some politicians and playwrights use this rhetoric also, for example, The 45th President Donald Trump, and the playwright Shakespeare.

Pathos helps the readers get more motivated to try and bring about a change, because they aren’t satisfied with the way things are. Chavez states that “We know that it cannot be more important than one human life” and “the burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America”. The use of pathos helps the readers see and realize that violence is not the answer, that violence destroys and they feel they need to help this cause. Pathos gets the audience to feel the authors emotions through the essay and want to do something to help. Pathos is used as a motivator and a huge persuasive strategy to get the audience on his audience on his

Pathos is the appeals to emotion. In President Bush’s speech he explained how not everyone gets the opportunity to have freedom and peace. “People everywhere prefer freedom to slavery: prosperity to squalor; self-government to the rule of terror and torture. In Henry’s speech, he uses the fear of slavery and submission to persuade the colonist to fight. “There is no retreat but in submission and slavery” (Henry).**Some may say that this is not a form of pathos because it is facts that people do not want slavery, but they do want peace and freedom.

The next element in the rhetorical situation is pathos. Pathos is defined as connecting the author and the reader using emotion. Pathos is more reader dependent than the other elements. Pathos helps the writer know to know their audience and who they are intending to write for. Connecting to the audience using pathos is a strong way to get the support of the reader. The audience needs to be moved by what they’re reading. Without pathos, the writer won’t be able to properly connect to their audience.

Every piece of writing is embellished with its own set of rhetorical techniques meant to influence an audience to agreeing with a certain idea or purpose. In order to persuade and attract the audience, writers tend towards including techniques that invoke pathos or logos. For instance, Tony Robbins uses rhetorical techniques to engage his audience, explaining through active language and rhetorical questions how emotion is the motivating factor for any human action. As such, Robbins asserts that “emotion creates what we are going to do, or the action”. His message is that emotion is the most powerful device that leads people to do what they are doing.

Nicholas Carr addresses and adapts to his audience by effectively using pathos, a rhetorical appeal. The author captures his audience by appealing to their emotions. For example, Carr explains on page five,

Pathos is used very effectively in Seth Davis’s article. By using pathos he is helping to expose the purpose of the article in a way that you wouldn’t think of before. Davis states “As the father of three children under the age of eight, I can only pray that someone “exploits” my sons someday

Pathos appeals to the reader’s emotions by using emotional stories and imagery. Pathos strategies are often used to grab and hold the reader’s attention. Emotional or personal stories give the reader an opportunity to emotionally relate to the story, and allows them to be emotionally connected. An emotionally connected reader is more interested in the story that a reader who is not emotionally connected.

Pathos: It is the use of emotion and affect to persuade the audience. In this appeal, the author creates an emotional statement: “ an overworked single mother may find herself over stressed and fatigued at the end of the day, making