Pathos

As far as being persuasive goes, commercials and television clips can, and should aspire to be very effective when shown in the right way. Regardless of what audience it targets. By using the right amount of logos, ethos, and pathos the commercial can reach out to a greater audience, therefore making it highly affective. The video I chose to analyze is a BC SPCA animal cruelty awareness commercial. It features a variety of small clips of dirty, injured, and sick animals stuck in cages and crates…

featured his cartoon on May 9, 1754 in the Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper. Franklin’s cartoon proved to be rhetorically effective by his usage of symbolism, application to all three points on the rhetorical triangle, and his appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos. During Franklin’s era, there was a myth that a severed snake would come back to life if the pieces were put together before sunset. The cartoon depicts the early American colonies as a snake divided into eight segments, each segment…

letter for his wife to read with hopefulness of bringing them to be with him and enjoy the better life they will have in the United States than in England; a letter that is filled with rhetorical devices of polyasyndeton, great diction, hyperbole, and pathos, written in order to persuade his wife to bring the whole family to come over to the United States and live with him. The author's diction is in the semantic field of hopefulness throughout the first third paragraph in which Downe spoke of…

As written earlier, I view Dalton's decision to use the word; "black" instead of African American catches the eye and builds pathos. He related the myth of equal opportunity back to slavery, which has an emotional toll on "black folk" (264). Most of Dalton's pathos resides in the subject of race. I noticed it most when Dalton states that the sole objective of the Alger myth was to maintain the racial pecking order of the time (264). This is believable…

benefits of failure and her personal failures. As she talks about failure, she tells the graduates about her work at Amnesty International and her college experience. While speaking of her experiences, she weaves in pathetic and ethical appeals. In pathos, the major point is the work she did at Amnesty International while her ethical appeal was the fact that she had also graduated from college and she made mistakes. J.K. Rowling has effective usage of pathetic and ethical appeals in her…

Unlike ethos and logos in “Should Everyone Go to College?”, “The New Liberal Arts” has the best usage of pathos. In “Should Everyone Go to College?”, Owen and Sawhill do little to appeal to their readers’ emotions. The closest Owen and Sawhill get to using pathos is implying that if one does not go to college they may end up as a criminal. Owen and Sawhill’s only other attempt at using pathos is their assertion that college can positively affect one’s life by “affecting things like job…

The article “The Cooling World”, published in Newsweek, uses a plethora of rhetorical elements such as ethos, pathos, and logos to explain, in layman's terms, the impact and significance of the cooling of the Earth’s climate. The piece uses simple and plain language to easily convey the graveness of the implications that arise from the cooling of the Earth. The author of the artifact, Peter Gwynne, is a science journalist whose focus is to present hypotheses and arguments based on the scientific…

dream body, since she is overweight. Throughout the course of the interview, Spurlock places pictures of women from magazines on the screen. This serves an overview of the young teenager’s thoughts, and an effective development of pathos. This interview is an example of pathos because the girl compares herself with the women in magazines. Secondly, an interview to first graders in regard to McDonald’s advertising. They spends approximately 963 million dollars a year on advertising, which is…

side. The rhetorical devices he used are ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade his audience into going to war with the British. The first rhetorical device Patrick Henry uses in his speech is ethos. An example of ethos in his speech says, "...number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not..." Ethos is credibility from…

I have decided to analyses his chapter “Acts of God” in relations to ethos, pathos and logos. Reece’s purpose of this chapter is to show the hardships of the people affected directly by mountain top removal, as well as how the companies that fund this method react and undermine their arguments to receive justice. It also explains how strong religious beliefs help drive the community to seek a change, or an impedance. However, this change is not in this life time. They practice acceptance and…