Enthymeme

Question 1: Scott Russell Sanders uses the appeal of logos throughout the passage, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, by appealing to logic, persuading the audience based on sense and reason. In this direct example from the text, “From the beginning, our heroes have been sailors, explorers, cowboys, prospectors, speculators, backwoods ramblers, rainbow-chasers, vagabonds of every stripe,” logos is introduced through excessive detail, giving more than plenty of examples in which we…

Introduction The speech I am critiquing is a sermon that was given at a conference. The person who gave the sermon was Dr. Ray Owens, and the sermon was entitled “The Power to Climb a Mountain”. In his sermon he provided two different contradictory attitudes: the mountain mentality, which is an attitude that embraces challenges, and the Molehill Mentality, which is an attitude that prefers to take the easy way out. Throughout the sermon, Dr. Owens provided different examples and used different…

The clock strikes precisely noon, the orange-tinted left hand reaches toward the leather cover of Lincoln’s bible, the right hand rising before the presidential oath rolls off his tongue. In January 2017, Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States of America. To celebrate the peaceful transition of power from one presidency to the next, President Trump stood to deliver his Inauguration Speech. In his Inauguration Speech, President Trump, an average orator at best, channels his…

Rhetoric Theory One of the most common theories in communication is rhetoric. “Rhetoric is communication that influences the attitudes or behaviors of others” (Alberts, Nakayama, and Martin 319). Rhetoric is what is used to persuade an audience. Philosophers have defined rhetoric in different ways. Plato defined rhetoric as “the art of winning the soul be discourse” (Alberts, Nakayama, and Martin 324). Aristotle, one of Plato’s students, said rhetoric was “the faculty of discovering in any…

Pathos is a tactic used to affect an audience’s emotions during an argument. Rhetorically speaking, the word pathetic is used to show that persuasion is most effective when dealing with others’ emotions. When used today, to be pathetic is to be shameful. When used in rhetoric, storytelling can change a mood by creating a factual reference and making an audience feel as though it could happen once again. In addition to storytelling, pathos depends on self-control. According to Aristotle and…

“to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash…” And by using these descriptive adjectives, we are able to paint a horrifyingly vivid image in our minds with regards to the cruelties that slaves endured. Along with using antitheses, enthymemes, and vivid imagery, Douglass also incorporates the technique of using metaphors in his oration. An example of this is when he says, “There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him”. By using…

1. In the salutation, King refers to himself as a “fellow” clergyman, building his ethos and credibility (1). By referring to himself as a member of the clergy, King asserts his equality and his stature in society. This statement is meant to evoke a sense of respect from the reader, and to force the reader to consider the ideas that will be explained. The immediate audience for this letter is the eight clergymen who issued a public statement of concern regarding his movement. However, the broad…

class, I have developed and presented an abundant amount of skills that will prepare me for my future. One of these skills was my use of key rhetorical terms such as exigence, purpose, audience, rhetor, logos, kairos, pathos, identification, and enthymeme. The second skill I developed was the expertise in finding and evaluating a variety of source materials. Third was the use of images, sounds, and animations and understanding how they are the building block of 21st century communication. I have…

Argument Comparison The essay “Why I [Still] Want a Wife” by Judy Brady is a hyperbolic piece on how a wife should act. Brady uses rhetoric by stating multiple, unrealistic ways a wife should act. I do not think Brady did well in doing this, since using exaggerations on how a wife should be loses, most audience members since they can not relate to the situations that Brady portrayed in the essay. I disagree with how Brady goes about this, since her use of sarcasm, hyperbole, and making the…

By just reading the title, one might assume that the article is merely an informative piece attempting to clarify the specifics of a suit popularized on social media, a place where the truth can be easily misconstrued. After fully reading the article, it is clear that there is a hint of support for Kesha, although the author tries to maintain neutrality. This is first noticed in the arrangement of the questions McCarthy proposes. Instead of clarifying the identities of the people involved at the…