People And Peace Not Profits And War Rhetorical Devices

Pathos is used in order to link the essay with the reader’s emotions and ethos is used to show the writers moral character. For example, pathos is used when Kozol speaks to a student of a Bronx high school, “Think of it this way,” said a sixteen-year-old girl. “If people in New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone…how would they feel?...I think they’d be relieved.” (Kozol 205) This part of the essay really made me feel sad for this girl who lives in a society where she has grown up feeling like now one cares about her or others of her race.

Rhetorical devices are devices that are used to convey a meaning to the reader and create emotions through different types of language. Elie Wiesel uses rhetorical devices such as personification, metaphors, and rhetorical questions to emphasize and establish the theme of losing faith.

Pathos is defined as being the emotional appeal of a text, so it is no wonder that many believe this. After all, pathos is the main thing in the text that personifies the author and links them to the audience in a way they can understand and relate to—emotionally. One of the biggest reasons FDR’s speech was so successful is because it gripped the crowd by appealing to their emotional sides. Perhaps the best example of this is toward the end of his speech, saying “Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” This sentence was very effective in gaining the attention of FDR’s audience because it created a sense of loss, unity, and hope, which are all powerful

Courageous persuaders use powerful rhetorical language to send a message to the public; this is how Dr. King accomplished his purpose. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, published in 1963: “Why We Cant Wait”, by Martin Luther King Jr., demonstrates a perfect example of empowering rhetorical language. King demonstrates this language in order to persuade his readers in a respectful manner. King’s purpose of writing this letter is to create awareness of the lack of civil rights in the Negro community; his main goal for his call to action is to stop segregation. In order to bring peace and justice for segregated families, Dr. King, attempted on persuading the clergyman to observe the civil disobedience that is immoral for Kings people by using these rhetorical appeals: pathos, ethos, and logos.

Persuasive works use many rhetorical devices to help the writer or speaker grab the audience's attention, or even manipulate certain emotions. Martin Luther King, Jr. used rhetorical devices in his works to create responses in his audience. He chose which devices to use based on his audience and the occasion. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was meant to carry emotional appeal, while his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” focused on logical appeal.

As Toni Morrison has made clear, language can be used to oppress and subjugate other people. However, it can also be used for more honorable purposes. The four different public speeches in the United States — Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death,” Abraham Lincoln’s “The Gettysburg Address,” John F. Kennedy’s “Inaugural Address,” and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream.” — were used to uplift and ennoble an audience. The authors of these four speeches utilized strong rhetorical devices like logos, ethos, and pathos in order to successfully convey their message to their audience. These speeches were given in order to protect the freedom, liberty, and equality of all people.

Human being are not cold blooded animal and nobody is definitely indifferent. Therefore, authors always write down words to arouse readers’ enthusiasm or fervor gradually. Pathos work as the same way, which let readers get moved by emotion weapon. We can find many pathos devices in this well-known speech. “The real hero of this struggle is the American Negro. His actions and protests, his courage to risk safety and even to risk his life, have awakened the conscience of this nation. His demonstrations have been designed to call attention to injustice, designed to provoke change, designed to stir reform. He has called upon us to make good the promise of America. And who among us can say that we would have made the same progress were it not for his persistent bravery, and his faith in American democracy.” From these great words, Johnson described the American Negro as a hero, who had awakened the conscience of this nation. There is no doubt that many people were neutral in this case. However, after that speech, after being persuaded by their president, they might turn to agree with their president. Some of them might give up their prejudices to Negroes. They would recall many Negroes who were used to live with them were also kind and gave their hands sometimes. Pathos work in that way. Authors utilize pathos to tough readers and audiences, like what I have mentioned, everyone has the milk of human kindness. Take text for example again, “This great, rich, restless country can offer opportunity and education and hope to all, all black and white, all North and South, sharecropper and city dweller. These are the enemies: poverty, ignorance, disease.” These impressed words reminded all the people of that USA belonged to everyone. They should be unity to stop poverty, ignorance, disease not discriminate not our fellow man, not our neighbor. This pathos improved this

Pathos is the use of emotion on the audience or reader where the writer plays on the emotion of the reader so they can make an emotional connection.If you use their emotion in argument to get them to do something.Would you be more connected to a person if you have made a good connection between the two or more of you?when someone uses emotion on something it can make them do things they normally wouldn't do because they are emotionally thinking about the effects something could have done to themselves or somebody else.An example of using emotion is by using words that are meaningful to the person such as saying”please don't i love them”.

Five years from now, the piece read for this class I will most likely remember is St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. This short story impressed me the most is girls raised by wolves sent to a school to be educated and civilized by nuns. In rhetoric, a rhetorical device is a technique that an author Karen Russell uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective, using sentences designed to encourage or provoke a rational argument from an emotional display of a given perspective or action.

One of Dr. King's most influential devices is his pristine use of repetition in order to drill his points across and reel the audience in. He goes on by describing the poor conditions faced by African Americans due to segregation that is ultimately at the fault of the government. Also showing how their African brothers are being taken away to fight for a country that does not see them as equals. His use of repetition is seen in statements such as: “...their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die…” and, “For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence….” Dr. King intends to stress the idea of this injustice in order to rally the people against the lack of civil rights by humanizing the countless African Americans who had died fighting for a nation that will not fight for them.

Rhetorical language is used to persuade and appeal specific audiences. War is an inevitable part of history. Ishmael Beah was in Sierra Leone's war and he talks about it in his memoir A Long Way Gone. Marjane Satrapi lived through Iran’s 1980 cultural revolution and her experiences in her graphic novel Persepolis. These two authors use rhetorical language to communicate the characteristics of revolution.

Dr. King uses pathos to appeal to the emotion of audience in his letter. Pathos is an interest to feeling, and is a method for persuading an audience of a

Pathos is the emotional aspect of the message and is used to draw in the reader. It touches your heart instead of your brain which is an effective way to capture the audience.

Martin Luther King Jr. is a largely remembered historical figure who gave African Americans the rights they deserved. To do this King wrote his famous “I Have a Dream” speech that shocked the world. In this speech, King used a variety of rhetorical devices as tools to really “get people going”. One rhetorical device that did this best is the use of amplification, which is the use of repetition to use strong emphasis. Examples of these are seen all throughout the speech in words such as, “I have a dream”, or “let freedom ring”. When spoken, this repetition has the ability to get the point across to people. King is telling everyone that he will not be silenced and that he is a strong leader that is determined to seek justice for his people. Not only does this rhetorical device display King's qualifications of a leader but also his skills as a writer. This is because the way that he expresses himself through his words. He would be able to hook a reader to listen to him. Of course, seeking what many people thought as an “unachievable equality” can't be as easy as to write a speech with only one rhetorical device.

Additionally, emphasis through repetition of certain phrases is what makes Dr. King’s speech so memorable. To increase the rhetorical effect in his speech, Dr. King used the rhetorical device ‘anaphora,’ in which words are repeated at the beginning of neighboring clauses. A pattern is set by repeating the words twice, and further repetitions signify the sequence and increase rhetorical effect. For instance, "I have a dream" is repeated in eight successive sentences. Dr. King’s greatest emotions lie in the continuous repetition of the phrases “I have a dream” and “Let freedom ring.” In addition, Dr. King repeated key words throughout his speech. For example, he used key words like "freedom," "we," "our," "nation," "America," "justice," and "dream," to highlight important themes he discussed in his speech. He also used strong phrases like “sweltering with the heat of oppression” and “Let us not wallow in the valley of despairs” to imprint the seriousness of the