Gail Collins Ethos Pathos Logos

Pathos is a rhetorical device that is meant to evoke emotion in the targeted audience. Anthony used pathos as a support system in order to make her speech effective (Phillips 251). Anthony’s speech evokes emotion in its readers not through use of emotional language, personal stories, or loaded words, but from her claim that women must not be considered citizens of the United States since they were not allowed to vote. As stated, the Constitution did not specify gender as they did race, color, or previous servitude, and yet women were denied the vote. The quote, “The only question to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.” evokes emotion in the audience because evidently women were and are persons, this was an unjust statement to claim (Anthony paragraph 5). Anthony effectively used the unjust statement as a way of attracting her audience’s attention by challenging the opposition. Anthony also used this statement as a way of showing the audience that it was unreasonable not to consider women citizens, and in turn, allow them to

The beginning of any thought provoking essay will hook its audience using a form of pathos. “Two of his sons returned home from the battlefield whole and healthy. The third, however, came home suffering multiple seizures a day”-(Rorabacher). The quote generates sympathy within us making us yearn to see a welcoming outcome and leaving the audience hooked. Eli Hager’s article follows a similar route informing us that “The state of Missouri sent Harris to the penitentiary in Boonvilee, 250 miles from his home and baby daughter”-(Hager). Again we sympathize with the loss of a family, but not all of the articles used grievance to hook us. In the “Quiet Alarm” the audience is informed of a vaudeville performer who performed deadly stunts involving hatchets, pins, and guns on himself to generate shockwaves in the audience. From these examples we identify how our emotions lure us into these texts.

Ethos, pathos, and logos are all devices that Barbara Ehrenreich effectively uses throughout her novel Nickel and Dimed to prove that America needs to address the commonly overlooked issue of poverty within every community. It is important that she uses all three devices because they help support her argument by increasing her credibility, connecting to the readers’ emotions, and appealing to their sense of logic. The combination of these devices puts a sense of urgency on the problem Ehrenreich is addressing and therefore creates an effective argument.

As we begin our analysis, we reconstruct the context in which, “10 Reasons to Avoid School Lunches Like the Plague”, was written. Recently, Michelle Obama has made a rule that has forced Colorado school’s to improve the health of the school lunch programs. While all of the Douglas County schools have yet to implement the supposedly healthy lunch program, it has still caused much debate. This debate has been fueled by students, parents, and even teachers. All of which have different responses to the conflict. Some believe that healthy lunches will cause more food to be thrown away and therefore healthier, is a bad idea. Others believe that the lunches are still not healthy. All of these elements contribute to the kairotic moment of Leah Segedie’s

With the analysis of rhetorical strategies underway, I would like to discuss the presence of pathos in the speech. Sanger was a very passionate writer, and this allowed her to be absorbed into the paper. I noticed that, in Sanger’s speech, there were many emotionally loaded words. For example:

In President Obama’s “Osama bin Laden Killed” speech he dives right into using pathos. He reminds the country of what happened 10 years ago on 9/11 and who was responsible. This is such an effective strategy because 9/11 wasn’t an event that only affected a few people, it was a day that shocked and enraged a nation. Everyone in the nation was affected. By bringing it back up, Obama rekindles that fire of anger, sadness, and desire for justice in the audiences hearts. Due to this, everyone is drawn in to everything he says after.

This article shows great details of how bad writing can be fixed. The article begins by showing logos of what high school and college students are struggling with the most. The reason is that it states key examples of what the students at New Dorp high school aren’t good at. The article shows a lot of opinion from teachers by telling their ways of fixing the students. It is also repetitive by saying that the main reason the kids are not good writers is because they are lazy. In certain ways, this article is using pathos by the teachers. I do think the writer could have used more proven facts.

Pathos is the emotional appeal to an audience, and most can agree that October holds an emotional rollercoaster of a holiday. We see horror movies not only terrorize the character’s feelings but also the audiences’. (A brief PSA) Pathos includes but is not limited to, argument ad verecundiam, argument ad populum, emotional Imagery, hypothetical Illustrations, and overall emotional appeals.

Have you ever wondered why you were forced to take an English course in college, where you had to learn about genre and different forms of writing? Ever also wondered, when am I going to ever use this in everyday life? Well, I am here to tell you there is an explanation to both of those questions and it should make one think about what they are learning on a whole different level. Starting with genre, you should know that pretty much everything has a genre within.

This picture taken by Barbara Davidson in Los Angeles on December 29,2010 depicts the true reality of the environment that the people in Los Angeles were living in. The photo informs audiences that many families were victims caught in the crossfire of the gang violence that erupted within the city. The victim in this picture is a young man still in high school shot and killed walking home after a shopping trip. The photographer uses pathos and appeals to the audience emotions by showing the sorrow and pain left behind by these acts of violence and complete disregard to human life and those affected in the aftermath. The context of this photo can be political and cultural in that the suspect of this picture was an undocumented immigrant teenager

In the articles “Alone in the Crowd” and “As technology Gets Better, Will Society Get Worse?,” Michael Price and Tim Wu, respectively acknowledge the effects of technological advances. While both Price and Wu use effective rhetorical strategies in their articles, one presents their argument in a more persuasive manner. Wu effectively convinces his audience that as a society we continue to advance technologically, but for the wrong reasons. Price references an interview with Sherry Turkle, to convey his opinion that the social media frenzy consumes our society. Price and Wu both present their point of view, but Wu has more factual information to justify his argument. The appeal to emotion is stronger in Price’s article; however, in this situation Wu’s logos appeal is more rhetorically effective. Beyond Ethos, Pathos, and

What is the significance of rhetoric in writing? Analyzing Sarah Maslin Nir’s article “The Price of Nice Nails” unveils how her rhetorical techniques have the capacity to effectively persuade her readers: her article’s format, audience, and purpose (as well as the use of ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the article) all contribute to her efficacy in persuasion. With these rhetorical techniques, Nir’s article is effective at persuading the audience to sympathize with manicurists, especially those working in New York City. Along with Nir’s ability to persuade her audience, she provides them with compelling support for her argument, which serves to intensify her argument’s influence.

In the film The Way We Get By Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly use many rhetorical strategies to appeal to their audience. Their most used and affective appeal is Pathos. Pathos is an appeal to the audience's emotions. The filmmakers us the other rhetorical strategies Logos and Ethos but not as effectively as Pathos.

Traumatic events are often used to show moral dilemmas in society. One such example made by Ray Comfort’s was the dilemma of comparing the horrors of the Holocaust to the current abortion epidemic. Comfort employs the rhetorical appeals to draw out a response from his interviewees, parallels their logic to biblical principles, and ultimately asks them to make a decision on where they stand not only on the issue of abortion, but also in response to the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

The strongest of Obama’s points reside in his use of pathos, or emotional appeal, to connect with his audience. The audience and appeal are blatant from the beginning of the essay to the final word. Americans. Due to the loss of American lives, the emotional charge within the audience is almost palpable. Obama highlights this when he states: