“Speech to the Troops at Tilbury”: A Rhetorical Analysis Passion is a necessary trait all excellent speakers use to persuade their audiences. A passionate speaker uses pathos to sway his or her audience to the speaker’s side by playing with the audience’s emotions. Before pathos is used to move the audience emotionally, it is smart for the speaker to use ethos to build good credibility. With credibility, the speaker has the ability to make the audience trust him or her. That trust is beneficial to help the audience believe what the speaker is saying. Logos is another trait that a strong speaker must make use of to show intellect. It is the appeal to logic. Logic is needed to show the audience that the speaker knows his or her facts and can effectively back them up. Ethos, pathos, and logos are three vital aspects of a good speech. Elizabeth I uses all three appeals subtly throughout her speech, using pathos the most. The queen also uses rhetorical devices to emphasize her points. Through the use of amplification, asyndeton, and climax, Elizabeth I reassures and inspires her troops with her compelling speech. Amplification uses repetition in an ingenious manner, adding more detail to the original statement, making it more effective. Ethos paired with amplification is a very effective combination Elizabeth I utilizes in her speech to her troops in Tilbury. She builds ethos by comparing herself to men who are better known to the people. Elizabeth I knows her people do not
Society often masks the true horrors of war in order to promote patriotism. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque captures the reality of war through the horrific imagery, which he portrays through similes. The narrator, nineteen-year-old Paul Bäumer, and his comrades look over the trenches to witness horse suffering in no man’s land. Prior to ending the horse’s misery, the soldiers see the last one “[prop] itself on its forelegs and [drag] itself round in a circle like a merry-go-round” (Remarque 64). Remarque compares the dying horse to a merry-go-round to create situational irony through imagery. Associated with happiness and nostalgia, merry-go-rounds portray purity as they are ironically compared to a tortured
Germany betrayed Paul Baumer and his comrades. All Quiet on the Western Front is told from the perspective of Paul Baumer, an enlistee in the German army during World War One. He enlisted as a teenager after a push from his schoolteacher to fight for his country. Paul and his fellow comrades experience the horrors of war as they are told to kill and lay down their lives for their country. Paul goes through battles, injuries, the loss of friends and comrades, and he inevitably loses his life.
In the incredible book, All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, the reader follows Paul Baumer, a young man who enlisted in the war. The reader goes on a journey and watches Paul and his comrades face the sheer brutality of war. In this novel, the author tries to convey the fact that war should not be glorified. Through bombardment, gunfire, and the gruesome images painted by the author, one can really understand what it would have been like to serve on the front lines in the Great War. The sheer brutality of the war can be portrayed through literary devices such as personification, similes, and metaphors.
Maybe this would open the eyes about the war in Iraq, even if you ask people on the street they usually say that the war was wrong. It really surprised me that he won the next election, at maybe he shouldn't have, and he actually cheated like the movie says he does. A lot of these clips that Michael shows in his movie, had been shown in the news and I recognized some of them, and you have to admit that Bushes behavior has been very weird. Even though some people say that this is propaganda, all lies and is stupid just doesn't want to see the facts. A lot of these things are true, and can anyone actually stand up and tell me why a war where hundreds of thousand people have died? Was it to force democracy down on a middle eastern country, how
1781, an essential year for the colonists’ independence. As described in “Hamilton,” the Siege of Yorktown was the final struggle of the Revolutionary war. If this battle did not happen, the war would have surely stretched on.
Imagine being so scared to die, that you must kill and attack another to survive. Paul, from All Quiet on the Western Front, was caught in this situation, during his time in war. He had been hiding in a trench one day, waiting for a skirmish to cease. A French soldier leapt into the trench that Paul was hiding in, and out of fear Paul immediately began to stab him. Paul was so petrified that he did not even realize what he had done, until he felt the blood on his hands. Paul stayed in the trench as he reflected on his actions, melancholy. In, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, the author created a depressing mood throughout the passage, with the use of gory, sorrowful diction and imagery. This causes readers to feel very
Furthermore, Lincoln used appeal to emotion as a way to reach out to his audience and unify the country once again. He stated, “The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether” to support the victory of the Union. This pleased Northerners because it justified the reasons of entering the war and made it that slavery was immoral and against the will of the lord. Anyone with opposing believes was left to deal with lingering doubts in their consciences. Douglass’ tone was also very criticizing and even vulgar at times. In spite of this, his tone worked to his advantage and served as a call to action for the North for help in the pre-Civil War era. Douglass’ tone caused his audience to question their beliefs and consider Douglass’ standpoint
Throughout the Prime Minister’s Eulogy the audience can very obviously see the various places that Margaret Thatcher uses Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos is used in writing to help establish the author's credibility, or make sure that the readers know why exactly its acceptable for the author to be discussing this topic. Pathos is then used when the author factors into the writing the concerns of their audience; such as making sure that the words will appeal to the audience. Logos, the final of the three, is put into play when making sure that everything about the writing is smooth and effective.
To begin with, in pursuance of persuading her audience of soldiers to allow King Agamemnon to keep his stolen war prize Briseis, Speaker 1 capitalizes on the three rhetorical appeals: logos, pathos, and ethos. The most effective appeal for her, given her audience, was ethos. First, she had to establish herself as a credible source for the sake of convincing the soldiers why her reasoning was valid. Who better to speak about the King then his trusted advisor, who not only worked with him throughout his ruling, but who also worked with his father before him and watched him grow up to be the man he is today. With the audience of soldiers in mind, they are more likely to listen to the reasoning of a person in power, who has proven themselves to be knowledgeable and can testify on behalf of a person, both personally and professionally. Soldiers are trained to follow the commands of someone in charge and if the trusted advisor says that they are capable of allowing the King to keep Briseis and in turn continue to fight the war and win without Achilles, then it can be done. Using ethos gives the speaker a platform to be heard from. Similarly, the speaker’s commanding tone of voice helped to deliver an effective speech. It would have been futile to have established herself as this person with great power had her deliverance not matched the substance of the
According to Aristotle, ethos means that the persuader convinces someone else of their character or credibility or appeal to ethics; pathos means the persuader convince the audience of an argument by creating an emotional response or appeal to emotions; and logos means that the persuader is persuading an audience by reason or appeal to logic. Ethos can make a person sound fair or unbiased, person could also introduce their expertise or pedigree, and a person could use the correct grammar and syntax when it comes to using the appropriate language. Pathos can make an audience feel sympathy from the persuader or to make them
What is it about some people that make others just stop whatever they are doing and listen to their words? Well, it is more than just magnetism, it is strategy. There are many tools and techniques to employ when writing or speaking to connect with one’s audience. Ethos, pathos, and logos are a simple but effective representation of these techniques. In her passionate TED talk, “The Power of Introverts”, Susan Cain employs many rhetorical strategies that allow her to connect with her audience and make her talk more powerful.
Aristotle defined three parts to being an effective communicator: ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is the credibility that a speaker or a writer brings to the subject that he or she is communicating about. Some people are able to gain more trust in certain areas because of their experience. Logos is the appeal to reason, to the forcefulness of a well-thought-out and well-structured position. It uses facts and solid evidence to get a writer’s point across. Pathos is the use of emotion in debate or argument. This is used a lot in visuals such as advertisements or videos (Losh, 44) In William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator, who calls himself William Wilson, enrolls in a school and meets another student that looks and acts exactly
You want to see if the speaker is being persuasive in their verbal and nonverbal actions. Pearson, Nelson, Titsworth and Hosek (2016) said the definition for pathos is “The use of emotional proofs in an argument.” (p.354). As Samantha gives her speech you can hear it in her voice how she feels about the topic she is discussing. You can also see her nonverbal actions that she cares emotionally with her body movement and hand gestures. Samantha says “If we bring the same moral clarity that they so eloquently expressed four decades ago; if we relentlessly fight back against ignorance and hatred of all forms in our nations…. then we will bring our nations and the United Nations closer to living up to their ideals.” (Powers). She tries to get us pumped up at the end of her speech and make us want to do something about it. She easily persuades people with her pathos and that is a major strength during this
The three key elements of an awesome discourse are ethos, feeling and logos. "For Aristotle, the ethos of a speaker is enticing when the discourse exhibits reasonable shrewdness, moral excellence, and generosity toward the audience."(Aristotle's Rhetoric) Clinton influences it to clear that she comprehends and is an imperative individual covering the point. "In the course of recent years, I have worked constantly on issues identifying with ladies, kids, and families. In the course of the last over two years, I've had the chance to take in more about the difficulties confronting ladies in my own particular nation and around the globe." She indicates skill with her insight and aptitude to the group of onlookers. "Influence is accomplished by the speaker's close to home character when the discourse is so talked as to influence us to think they are solid"
According to Aristotle “the character ethos of the speaker is a cause of persuasion when the speech is so uttered as to make him worthy of belief, for