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Persuasive speeches are used to convince the audience about a speaker’ point on view of a particular subject. Persuasive speeches contain evidence and facts to keep the speech formal. Two persuasive speeches are Tom Collins’, “Eve of Battle,” and Martin Luther King’s anti-war speech, “Beyond Vietnam.” Each of these speeches are about war, one speech, Tim Collins’ urges troops into war, while the other by Martin Luther King is an anti-war speech. Tim Collins war speech is targeted towards Western soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict. Martin Luther Kings’ speech is focused towards people that are not in the army and who are against war. Tim Collins’ war speech is more successful than Kings’, as it addresses the correct audience
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Ollie’s’ speech is also more successful due to its structure and his use of body language, tone and rhetorical questions.
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Both Tim Collins and Martin Luther King use ethos in form of exclusive and inclusive pronouns, to persuade the target audiences. Although Tim Collins uses a wider variety of devices. Tim Collins uses inclusive pronouns to make sure his soldiers all feel as though they are part of the conversation, which helps them understand their orders to help solve the war in Iraq. For example, Tim Collins opens his speech by directly addressing his soldiers, “We go to liberate, not to conquer.” Constantly repeating ‘we’ engages the audience and his direct address ensures his soldiers feel they all have a part to play in the war. Tim Collins uses direct address to “liberate Iraq” and explains that they are freeing the people of Iraq under the control of dictators. Therefore, the men, women and children
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An emotional appeal is a method of persuasion that's designed to create an emotional response. Martin Luther King uses a different emotional settings and devices. Martin Luther King uses emotional appeal to make the audience feel connected and to make them feel as if they can change society. For example, Martin Luther King opens his speech by directly addressing to the society, “It’s time for America to tell the truth.” As of the hidden truths of America. Soldiers in the 20th century were sent into war zones without knowing much of their operation. By repeating ‘truth’ it engages the audience into wanting to know the secrets of America and building up in emotion. Martin Luther King creates emotional setting through evidence and examples of the suffering that both soldiers, women and children are put through and the devastation caused in the aftermath. Therefore, men and women should be able to make decisions of their own instead of the government applying pressure on people into fighting in wars. In contrast to Martin Luther King, Tim Collins uses emotional appeal immediately at the start of his speech and involves his audience. Tim Collins expressed emotional appeal in more of a serious matter as of he and his soldiers are heading into war and he does not use emotional appeal that well, he mainly speaks in a dry voice sounding dramatic. Therefore, Martin Luther Kings speech
Martin Luther King jr. both used an ethical appeal in their speeches . For example, Franklin Delano Roosevelt utilized his ethical appeal by gaining the audience trust and telling them what they need to do,” This I purpose to offer pledging that the larger purposes will blind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife,” This quote shows that Roosevelt is telling everybody that they need to become united. This is what people need to do to come out of The Great Depression. In addition, Martin Luther King jr. also made an ethical appeal in his speech when he speaks what the people want, “ We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.” colored people are victims of police brutality and racism and want it to come to an end. This is important because it shows that colored people are tired of being oppressed. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King jr both used an ethical appeal in their speeches to make a better America but they also used a logical
At a tense meeting in a church in Richmond, Virginia, away from the watchful eyes of Britain, Patrick Henry began to deliver a rousing speech to the Second Convention of Delegates. His passion was tangible to the audience as he called the delegates to action. His speech was memorable to everyone in the room and powerful in convincing the delegates to support the war. Little did he know that this speech would continue to be known for its power and persuasion for generations to come. Throughout Patrick Henry's speech, he emphasized the necessity to act against Britain and support the war, but he did so in a way that was unavoidably persuasive. Henry used emotional appeal, metaphors, and rhetorical questions in order to convince the delegates
Have you ever needed to be persuade someone, to change or make them understand the positive viewpoint on the situation given? Within Patrick Henry’s “ speech to the Virginia Convention” he persuaded colonists to go to war with Britain by using these rhetorical techniques, imagery, repetition, rhetorical question, and appeal to ethos. Using such techniques, to either paint a picture of why to go to war, enforce an idea, for them to question their own ideas, and to be convinced that the Speaker is the one they should be listening to.
Martin Luther King went to jail for protesting for blacks in Birmingham in 1963. During the early starts of the civil rights movement he wrote a letter while in jail addressing the criticism people showed towards him who should have known better to not bash him in negative ways. It is known that the Birmingham Letter was the most important letter documented in the civil rights era. The letter provided as a long road to freedom in a civil rights movement. In this letter there are three appeals shown in the text. One appeal is known as Ethos. Ethos means to convince the audience of the authors work or character. Pathos is another appeal which is intended to persuade an audience which has to relate to their emotions. The third one is logos which appeals to logic also known to convince an audience by the use of reason.
Emotional appeals were used in both Bush’s and Henry’s speeches. In Bush’s speech, he reminds his audience of when Iraq attacked America at a moment of vulnerability a year before his speech was given. This surprise attack was brought up several times in his speech because of the emotion brought forth remembering the thousands of American lives taken during the Iraqi attack on September 11th, 2001. During this time an emotional appeal that refers to a recent event will get a strong reaction from the audience. In Henry’s speech, pathos is used to elicit values of freedom. Henry induces fear of slavery and steps on his audience's masculinity by saying: “They [Great Britain] tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable adversary.” “ Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?” Therefore, Bush and Henry both utilize pathos in their speeches; Bush uses pathos in a repetitive way to remind his audience of the recent past attacks on America by the Iraqi regime and Henry exercises pathos to induce fear into his audience and elicits values of
In his "Letter," Martin Luther King Jr.'s ability to effectively use pathos, or to appeal to the emotions of his audiences, is evident in a variety of places. More particularly in paragraph fourteen, King demonstrates his ability to inspire his fellow civil rights activists, invoke empathy in the hearts of white moderates, and create compassion in the minds of the eight clergyman to which the "Letter" is directed.
In this essay I will compare the speeches of Chief Joseph and Martin Luther King. I will give the main features and impacts of both speeches. I will compare the similarities and differences of the speeches .The first speech is of Chief Joseph who is a chief of one of the Native American tribes and was talking to the American president . The second speech is Doctor Martin Luther King's
In order to successfully write rhetorically, an author must persuade an audience as if to win a debate. To do this, the author must create a trustworthy bond with the audience, support his claim through reason, and create emotion in the audience that compels them to leap out of their seats and take action. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to do this when he wrote an open letter while in his jail cell after a peaceful debate against segregation. His lettered response was guided at a statement by eight white Alabama clergymen saying that segregation should be fought in court and not on the streets. King uses a combination of three rhetorical appeals to accomplish his rhetor; ethical, logical and emotional. The three appeals used together
Writing from the heart, expressing feelings, having a strong emotional impact on ones audience, using an appeal to emotion and logic, using facts and presenting arguments in a professional way, to the enlightenment of one's viewers; Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail; consists of three Rhetorical Strategies throughout his letter that is known and taught around the world as ETHOS, PATHOS and LOGOS. An appeal to ethics, a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader (ethos), an appeal to emotion, and a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response (Pathos), and finally, an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason (Logos); these three Rhetorical Strategies are used countless times throughout Martin Luther King’s Letter for Birmingham Jail.
It is known that politicians use different forms of persuasive speech to continue their rule and get others to go along with what they think and do. In Patrick Henry’s speech “Speech to the Virginia Convention,” a claim that war would solve the future slavery of colonists under the British rule, and former president George W. Bush’s speech “President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat,” both politicians use rhetoric to show the people that war would best be served to improve their country. With this in mind, both speeches are very similar, much how other politicians’ orations are alike. The speeches are rhetorically alike because they use pathos, ethos, and loaded language to persuade their different audiences that war is necessary.
Martin Luther King makes significant use of emotional appeals to connect and enlist a sense of trust between him and the citizens of the community as
Persuading an audience can be done in several different fashions, one of which is Hugh Rank’s Model of Persuasion. Rank’s model states that two major strategies are used to achieve the particular goal of persuasion. These strategies are nicely set into two main schemas; the first method is to exaggerate an aspect of something, known as “intensify.” While the second is to discredit it, which is referred to as “downplay.” Al Franken, Jeffrey Snyder, Harlan Ellison, and George Will, have all written persuasive articles about gun control.
For example, Henry talks about the dangers of peacefully negotiating with the British. Henry says, “ Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?” (126). In other words, he is saying that the false hope, or “delusive phantom of hope” is tricking the colonists and helping the British take advantage over them. This quote is emotional appeal because it uses loaded language, diction, and strong imagery. This is effective because it creates an image for the audience, where the colonists holding onto the British, “supinely on our backs” being raped by this false hope. As a result, the reader can conclude that the emotional appeal in this quote uses strong imagery and
On the fiftieth anniversary of the events on “Bloody Sunday”, Obama gave a speech filled with encouraging words about how far American has come. Throughout his speech he included various pathos examples. For instance, he states, “[…] All of us need to recognize, as they did, that change depends on our actions, our attitudes, the things we teach our children. And if we make such effort, no matter how hard it may seem, laws can be passed, and consciences can be stirred, and consensus can be built” (Obama). He addresses the people as one, as if each and every one of us has as much responsibility as the next, and rightfully so. Ethos is another rhetoric analysis, it defines someone’s character or identity and Obama does just that when he says, “[…] who serve in elected office from small towns to big cities; from Congressional Black Caucus to the Oval office” (Obama). Obama refers to himself when speaking about the oval office because he was the first African American to be elected president, which is him talking about his own credentials.
Patrick Henry’s speech is to persuade the audience to go to war with Great Britain. He does this flawlessly by using the following rhetorical strategies: imagery, repetition, and emotion including other rhetorical strategies, such as rhetorical