Pathos-Driven Messages

Pathos is the written art of persuasion that is used to invoke emotion, and action in an audience. The CDC effectively pulls the emotions out of its audience with the picture of innocent little children displayed with a very troublesome disorder (ADHD, 2013). The author reaches within, to invoke the audience into action. Invoking emotions such as pity, sympathy, sadness, and even anger, which are certain to get people to set up and take notice. These photos of the children effectively use emotions to show how the disorder of ADHD works. There is one photo that speaks the loudest of the disorder of ADHD. That photo shows the distraught look of a child, as his parents are talking with the doctor (ADHD, 2013). The CDC very effectively caught the scene with its camera lens, capturing that distraught look in the child’s eyes, helping the audience see the actions of ADHD. The smile on the face of the parents and the doctor, will bring the audience into a sense of comfort and hope, pertaining to the

But there are times the author used pathos to make the audience realize what they have become, and what they are missing out on. One example of this was when Carr used a quote from an interview: “When culture drives changes in the way that we engage our brains, it creates DIFFERENT brains. THEIR HEAVY USE HAS NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES.” When Carr uses all caps, it implies to the audience that this is something they should pay attention to because it is important. It also installs fear in the reader, because something that we do every day such as going on our phones could have actual neurological consequences. Another use of pathos was when Carr stated the aim of Google. “To get users in and out quickly…” Carr goes on to explain that “As people spend more time and do more things online, they see more ads, and they disclose this information about themselves…and Google rakes in more money”. These understated comments grant the audience to consider and be more mindful of what they are doing. The author incorporates in some awkward moments when he talks about artificial intelligence. The creator of Google is quoted saying “the ultimate search engine is something as smart as people or more intelligent. Certainly if you had… an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you’d be better off.” Carr makes a comment about how unsettling it is to think about our minds being supplemented with artificial intelligence. This appeals to pathos because the audience has a firm impulse to agree with Carr because it is uncomfortable to think about a computer replacing our

The Charity: Water Campaign, the creators of this ad, utilize the three rhetorical appeals to promote donations for clean water. Pathos is the first rhetorical appeal the audience will see in the "Charity Water: Imagine" ad. Pathos is used to appeal to readers', or in this case viewers', emotions. There are many emotions the creators of this ad could manipulate but the main two seen here are compassion and fear.

Pathos appeals to the reader’s emotions by using emotional stories and imagery. Pathos strategies are often used to grab and hold the reader’s attention. Emotional or personal stories give the reader an opportunity to emotionally relate to the story, and allows them to be emotionally connected. An emotionally connected reader is more interested in the story that a reader who is not emotionally connected.

A great example in appealing to pathos would be no other than General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s order of the day to his military troops before the 1994 D-Day invasion of Normandy. General Eisenhower struck the emotions, values, hopes and desires of his force when he sent out his “Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force”. Eisenhower evoked the hope in his troops that they would possibly stop the never ending war against the Nazi tyranny. Eisenhower’s words suddenly embark the desire in these troops to end their sworn enemy, when the possibility of feeling pride in themselves for accomplishing he granting of security to their people of England. Eisenhower is very aware of his audience and its views, therefore he knows

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 is used very effectively in Seth Davis’s article. By using pathos he is helping to expose the purpose of the article in a way that you wouldn’t think of before. Davis states “As the father of three children under the age of eight, I can only pray that someone “exploits” my sons someday

Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. For an example Michelle says, “Strong men who are truly role models don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful"(Obama, 2016). This is an example of pathos because it is using emotion towards something that is being done to females. She is trying to get men to stop doing what they are doing to women by using emotion to show how hurtful it actually is. The emotion she is getting at is pride which men have a lot of. This affects the audience because it's going to show the men they need to change and being rude to women isn’t right.

Using pathos can connect the reader to the people

Pathos is a rhetorical appeal in which the writer tries to gain the readers attention by using emotions. The writer will give examples or information that will make the readers feel a certain emotion. For example, when you see the commercial of the ASPCA many people feel the need to donate because they see the suffering animals. It's a great way to get readers to agree with what you are saying because emotion gets the best of most people. I tried using this appeal in almost all my essays in order to get the readers to agree with me.

Pathos: Pathos refers to an appeal to emotions. It is used to persuade an audience by provoking an emotional response. In the very beginning of the video, Oliver features a couple pictures of cats while referring to the internet as an electronic cat database. He is taking advantage of the fact that many people adore cats and is attempting to elicit feelings of joy and happiness as he begins to discus how amazing the internet is.

The pathos appeal is used to influence an individual by using emotion (Colorado State University – Global Campus, 2017). Fred attempted to use emotion when demonstrating how

Why do my parents always do this to me? They force me to take medication that makes my stomach queasy like I had just drank spoiled milk. And why am I the only one to take these? Why do my siblings not have to? These are the questions invading my thoughts as I lay crying into my pink fluffy pillow.” (Galanti, Courtney). Hearing some of my thoughts and asking personal questions that they potentially feel connected to was my way of using pathos to convey to my audience the hardships that came along with my life long disorder when I was growing up, and also having them feel the emotions like they were their own as well. Another instance I was able to use pathos in my paper used the senses to make the reader feel what I was feeling. “As I bite down, the taste of iron floods my mouth causing me to immediately search my sandwich for the tiny pink pill. I found the light circle filled with venom in what I thought was a perfect sandwich as tears begin to fill my eyes.” (Galanti, Courtney). In “Old at the Age of 4” there were a lot of opportunities to use my emotion to make the reader connect to what I’m saying even if they did not have the

Logos is the use of logical appeals to persuade the audience. With deductive and inductive reasoning, logos is an effective and persuasive way to back up a claim and reach the readers. Pathos, on the other hand, is the use of appealing to one’s emotions in order to persuade. The language and tone the author portrays in their works helps to convince their audience and reach them through their emotions.

“And suffered him to go displeased away- even he that did uphold the very life of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady? I was enforced to send it after him” (MV