Essay On Ethos Pathos And Logos

I watched a speech online via TED talk, and the title of the speech is “Why gun violence can’t be our normal” delivered by Dan Gross who is a gun control activist. He delivered a really good persuasive speech with good ethos, pathos and logos to make sure that people follow his idea to end gun violence in America. He used warrant of the heart where he presented ethos, pathos and also I-logos. He tried to move his audience to end gun violence by making a personal claim. He provided a vivid example by asking the audiences to imagine a certain condition, create commonality, and many more.
He started his speech by sharing his own stories about how his little brother who was shot at the Empire State building and described the condition and reaction of his family at that time after they heard about the news of his brother had been shot. He portrayed and …show more content…
In my opinion, by using ‘you’ instead of ‘we’ it will make the individuals start to take action—it is more persuasive and engaging. He also portrays good logos in his speech where he presented natural proofs for his claims. For example, in this speech, he gave statistics facts about how many Americans supports the background checks for the gun sales in America. I like the way he make eye contacts with the audiences to make the audiences feel more engaged in his speech. He also had good body languages, movements and also good intonations while delivering the speech—he put emphasize in his points that he wanted the audiences to keep in mind. He used humor to make his speech more fun and engaging, at the same time, made the audiences to get involve in his speech. He used the approach like speech #3 in our course to make people leaning to our viewpoint, where he presented on why we need to stop gun violence by presenting the number of children being shot to