Chief Powhatan Speech Rhetorical Devices

Chapter one, entitled Two Worlds, opens with the Wahunsonacock and his brother, Openchancanough. The two were considered the “great Powhatan chiefdom”. Many raids and clashes arose between the different Native groups. The different groups began to spread around the Americas, but the Powhatans usually settled on or near rivers and small estuaries, preferably on higher ground, which gave the Powhatan a great advantage in seeking their enemies and preventing floods. The Powhatan community was designed for war and had

Equiano also uses pathos in his narrative. Pathos is when emotions including pity and sadness is evoked.For example, while being separated from his sister for the first time, Equiano mentions how he cried and grieved continually; and for several days did not eat anything and starved. Although he didn't eat anything, the times that he did eat was usually not by his own will but by force which is another example of Pathos in his writing. He ends up reuniting with his sister however, once again, she gets taken away and he continues to express his sadness of their separation and comes to the conclusion that he’s more miserable than before. “ ..she was again torn from me forever!.. I was now more miserable, if possible, that before.” (page 465)

Pathos is another word for sympathy. In the speech “People and Peace, not Profits and War,” Chisholm states in lines 5-8, “As a teacher, and as a woman, I do not think I will ever understand what kind of values can be involved in spending $9 billion -- and more, I am sure -- on elaborate, unnecessary, and impractical weapons when several thousand disadvantaged children in the nation’s capital get nothing” (39). Chisholm uses pathos to show her feelings about the children. In his Vietnam speech, Martin Luther King Jr. states, “We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation’s only non communist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men” (156). King uses pathos so that the readers agree with his opinions on the Vietnam War. In “Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes, he calls himself the farmer, the worker, the negro, and the people (1). Hughes wants people to realize how unfortunate he is and he wants people to sympathize with his feelings. Pathos triggers the reader’s emotions. They begin to sympathize with whoever is displaying their feelings. Authors may use this device to help the readers see the situation in their point of

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.

Chief Joseph successfully utilizes pathos in the sense of him making the audience feel awful for what him and tribe has had to go through. He talks about the most vulnerable people, children, saying, “The little children are freezing to death.” He knows that the children ran away from all of the adults that were older than them, or at least the ones still alive and knew that they probably would not live since it was freezing outside and there was no food or shelter. It makes the reader sympathize with Chief Joseph and share his sorrow. Chief knows that the little children are freezing and starving to death. He says, “ My heart is sick and sad”, Chief’s heart is aching for all of what he has seen and been through. This helps describe his emotions, by telling us how he

There are many uses of rhetoric in “The Crisis No. 1”. Paine uses a plentiful amount of logos in this essay. He uses it to explain logically that the colonies would thrive if they were free from British rule. He pairs his use of logos with lots of pathos. He tries to get the American patriots upset with the British in order for them to be more willing to fight against them. For example, he uses pathos when telling the story of the Tory tavern keeper who made a so called ignorant statement in front of his child. The tone he used when speaking about the tavern keeper seemed almost furious! The impact of his use of tone leaves the reader appalled. Similarly, he also uses pathos when he equates offensive war to murder; “...I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder...”(Paine 90).

A leader has many responsibilities as a role model and caretaker for their people. Facing hard challenges and knowing how to deal with them is a part of being a great leader all of which are Chief Powhatan showed. Chief Powhatan whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, was the superior chief of Tsenacommacah, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607. In his address to Captain John Smith Chief Powhatan expresses how he desires peace between the settlers and the Tsenacommacah. He utilizes distinct rhetorical elements such as rhetorical questions, diction and argumentation to further support his view on what he desired to occur between his people and the English settlers.

Both Chief Tecumseh and Chief Seattle use rhetorical devices in order to evoke change in their audience’s actions. Chief Tecumseh calls for his audience to unite against the injustice of the settler’s expansionist ideals. Through the use of comparison, Tecumseh introduces their illogical and flawed ideals. Tecumseh states, “Sell a Country? Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well the Earth?” (Address to General William Henry Harrison). The selling of the Native’s land is compared to the selling of the sea and Earth. This demonstrates how illogical it is for the settler’s to take their land, due to the fact that owning land is a god given right that is for everyone just like air and the sea. Furthermore, it shows the audience, who in 1795

Winston Churchill delivered his speech on May 13, 1940, three days after he became prime minister. In Churchill’s speech he wanted to connect with the audience on an emotional level, so he uses many different examples of the rhetorical device pathos. For example, Churchill’s famous quote “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”. By saying this, he wants the people to know that, he will give all that he has and he will give as much effort as he can and that’s all that he can offer them. Another example of pathos in the speech is when Churchill said, “We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering”. By saying this, Churchill uses terms such as “us”, “struggle”, and “suffering” to get to the people and to show that the war cabinet crisis wouldn’t be an easy thing to get though out of the rhetorical devices ethos, pathos, and logos, Churchill uses pathos more

I found in the play “Leaving Home” that I could find the use of pathos in various spots. I noticed the definition “an expression or utterance that evokes sadness or sympathy, esp. in a work of literature; a description, passage, or scene of this nature” more than the others. In this text, I could really see the use of pathos being used by the emotionally-loaded language, the emotional examples, the figurative language, and the emotional tone. The actors had a lot going on in just the short time of the play.

Pathos represents an appeal to the emotions of the audience. Mowat uses this rhetorical strategy to get us to feel the emotions that he felt. When arriving in Churchill, Mowat says that he discovered that “although wolves reputedly devour several people in the Arctic Zone every year, they will always refrain from attacking a pregnant eskimo” (24). In Chapter 4 When is a Wolf Not a Wolf?, Mowat shares his fear. He hears howling in the distance and quickly hides saying “I found myself wishing I were a pregnant eskimo” (42). Although this is funny, it made me feel fear for Mowat because of Churchill’s rumors that you would be eaten. It turns out the howling was just huskies which led Mowat to the realization that maybe everything that the people said isn’t true. A couple chapters later in Chapter 7 The Watcher Watched, Mowat learned that maybe wolves aren’t savage killers and maybe just the opposite of that. This lesson was learned when Mowat was out searching for the wolves and they were behind him the whole time. A struck of shock lit Mowat up when he realized that the wolves had any chance to attack him and they didn’t, instead they sat quietly and observed Mowat. This sent fear through me because it led Mowat to new ideas which means he’s going to put more trust into the wolves and go right into it with an open mind. From Chapter 7 on, the whole perspective changes.

In the next passage, we talk about how he is feeling emotionally. Through this expedition, he goes through a rough time with getting his energy up and not giving up, the challenging part is trying to stay with the team. Throughout his expedition, he is having to take care of his teammates and he wouldn’t take care of them for no reason, there was always a reason to take care of people around him.. He says “I felt disconnected from the climbers around me emotionally, spiritually, physically- to a degree I had not experiences on any previous expedition… yet I would do everything in my power to keep pushing on if he turned around” (284), this is an example of pathos because he uses his heart to express his feeling about his connections with his teammates.

Pathos is the appeal to onesone’s emotion, in this case to create a connection between the viewer and the hero. In Captain

Pathos consists in arousing the emotions of the listeners and directing those emotions in an action that should be taken. In order to use pathos in my speech, I could reference personal experiences. For example if I were having a conversation with someone who just lost a family member, I could make a connection with them by telling them about a similar loss in my

In the movie, as well as the book, there are multiple times where the rhetorical strategy logos is used. An example of one of them is when Atticus says, “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place.” I know it is logos because it is a fact that the state hasn’t given any medical evidence to prove that Tom is guilty of the crime he is being charged for. Atticus is using this fact to try to persuade some people with logic that it wasn’t Tom who did anything to Mayella. I think that this part was better in the movie because the actor who played as Atticus made it more dramatic which made the whole situation more effective and serious.