Aristotle's Three Means Of Persuasion

There are different ways for the authors to connect and appeal to their readers. Depending on the types of genre, they approach people differently to communicate the authors ' ideas. Aristotle, in his text "Rhetoric," helps identify three different means of persuasion to assist the writers in order to strongly connect with the reader. Martin Luther King Jr. uses these means to support his idea about justice in society in his text "Letter from Birmingham Jail." As like King, Rachel Carson also employs Aristotle’s distinguishes in her text, called "The Obligation to Endure," as a tool to express her thought about pollution. These two authors clearly argue about two different subjects; however, they both use the same three means of persuasion to communicate to the target audience. By using Aristotle’s distinguishes, the audience can analyze the effectiveness of ethos, pathos, and logos that King and Carson conduct in the texts to emphasize their arguments. Aristotle identifies logos as one of his three means of persuasion. He determines how logos, as a tool, helps the author to connect with the reader in his text. He exposes that "rhetoric is useful" because "thing are true," and have "natural tendency" to prevail their disagreements (Aristotle 180). By looking at one of three mean of persuasion, the reader …show more content…
and Rachel Carson, these authors utilize ethos, pathos, and logos from Aristotle 's three means of persuasion to create a strong connect and communicate to the audience. The texts pursue the reader to take action and stop negative behaviors that affect the society as well as the environment. By using these elements, the author allows the reader to take one step closer to look at different level of appeals and messages. Language has its owns power to emphasize different aspects, and all authors try to use it as the mirror to reflect on different issues in