Ethos

After reading Animal Farm by George Orwell, the reader can conclude that the pigs use rhetoric to manipulate the other animals in many certain ways. Ethos, pathos, and logos are the three rhetoric strategies that the pigs use. Animal Farm represents the “Russian Revolutionary War”. The three pigs all impersonate someone different in the war. Napoleon appears as Joseph Stalion. Squealer stands for the “Pravda Newspaper”. Lastly, Snowball assumes the role of the Leon Trotsky. In the “Russian…

outside of America, making promises and pledges of his best effort and giving logical advice to other nations in order to establish his reputation as an international leader while influencing change in other countries. With such a goal, he combined both ethos and logos appeals to encourage his worldwide listeners to cooperate for the right cause. Kennedy first promises that “[t]o those allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends” (1). With…

Antony’s funeral speech is known for its persuasive techniques like ethos, repetition, logos, and pathos. The speech has several pieces of ethos in it to show his credibility after Caesar’s death. Antony uses ethos when he declares, “He was my friend, faithful, and just to me” (3.2, 187). Antony is stating that Caesar was constantly reasonable, kind, and just and that lone a genuine companion…

realize how social media is effecting our society, but continues to follow the trend. Terms of Service by Jacob Silverman is a book that explores how social media has a “price” by constantly being connected. Jacob Silverman presents an argument by using ethos, pathos, and logos stating that being connected to social media constantly will greatly affect our lives in the future because users…

stressing the importance of inner strength and mental security through the telling of her main character's story. The author's advanced knowledge of ethos, logos, and pathos help to properly convey the message and or point across to the reader and her overall target audience of women themselves. The novel itself is filled with adequate use of Pathos and Ethos but lacks in the overall deliverance of logos, but Thompson properly powers through and successfully conveys the message that inner…

(“One of America’s” 262) The advertisement uses pathos by anticipating the unfavorable emotions that the bulldozer will dredge up in the minds of its intended audience. Ethos is used beneath the image with a description that includes statistical data from dependable sources that gives the ad credibility. At the conclusion of the advertisement, logos is utilized with a logical statement intended to provoke rational thought…

peaceful and nonviolent protest to the state of Alabama. The powerful and distinguished Dr. King was asked to lead the protest by the other activist in Birmingham, Alabama. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Dr. King convinces his audience by using ethos, logos and pathos to explain that his actions were important to provide insight to the public of the social injustice that took place in Birmingham. As many expressed their opposition against segregation and racial inequality, police still use a…

control. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Old Major, Snowball, and Squealer control the animals by inserting fear into their minds. Although all speakers give many speeches that include ethos, logos, and pathos, Squealer’s use of pathos is the most effective form of persuasion. Old Major’s rebellion speech uses ethos and pathos as rhetorical appeals; Snowball’s windmill speech focuses on logos; however, Squealer’s appeal to pathos in his apple and milk speech gains the most desired reactions. …

urgency of climate change. During most of his speech, Gore uses a lot of words that excite emotion to get people to want to change. He effectively uses pathos throughout his whole speech. Unfortunately, he is not as effective with logos (logic) and ethos (his credibility). Gore starts off with an anecdote about how Alfred Nobel wanted to better mankind by producing dynamite. Instead he was labeled “Merchant of death” in a mistaken obituary that was published before his death. This changed…

Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus uses manipulative devices in order to appeal to, pathos in which he evokes the feeling of being loved from the plebeians, logos in order to convince Cassius of his superior military plan, and ethos to establish trust with the commoners. Brutus’s appeal to pathos was intended to extract, from the audience, the most powerful feeling in the world, which is: love. To illustrate, Brutus is elaborating on the reasons he has for murdering…