Aristotle's Ethos Pathos Logos

Midterm Take Home Examination PART ONE: Five Canons of Rhetoric Rhetoric is the art of effective persuasion through writing and speech. The five canons of rhetoric include ‘Discovery’, ‘Organization’, ‘Style’, ‘Memorization’, and ‘Delivery’. - Discovery - The first canon referred to as ‘Discovery’ has two equivalents. First of which is inventio (in Latin) referring to the invention of an effective mode of persuasion and secondly, heuresis (in Greek) meaning discovery.

Pathos is a Greek word that means suffering or experience. Pathos is a word that brings pity or sadness that represents an appeal to the audience's emotions.

Pathos is the writers attempt to appeal to the audience emotions. For instance, “In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. ‘“I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,”’ the headline said” (Lukianoff and Haidt). The authors appeal to emotion paints a picture in the reader’s mind, further opening their eyes to make them feel how the professor was feeling. Also, naming the article “The Coddling of the American Mind” was a great was to represent how the problem was being addressed. The use of the word “coddling” reflected the way colleges were treating their students like babies. Enforcing trigger warnings to protect the students are not helping them for the future. This appeals to pathos because the audience gets a glimpse of what the after effect of “babying” has on

Pathos appeals to the reader’s emotions by using emotional stories and imagery. Pathos strategies are often used to grab and hold the reader’s attention. Emotional or personal stories give the reader an opportunity to emotionally relate to the story, and allows them to be emotionally connected. An emotionally connected reader is more interested in the story that a reader who is not emotionally connected.

Pathos: emotion/value, a way of convincing an audience of an argument by an emotional response

I must admit, I am enchanted by Aristotle's proofs ethos, pathos, and logos. While I do agree with the assigned text in that a balnce of the modes of persuasion creates the strongest argument, I am subsceptable to a well structured argument rooted an any of three proofs. Dispite my susceptability to Aristotle's proofs, I find Burke's theory on identification less compelling. Burke's rhetoric reminds me of the Psychologist's fallacy, a logical fallacy in which the speaker "mirrors", presents themselves as equals, or claim to be "just like you" in order to gain the audience's trust (Parish, 2011). Personally, I feel I have a tendancy to see through this approach, which ultimately leads to distrust of the speaker.

Pathos Pathos is one of the three types of methods that can be used when trying to pursue someone. Pathos is a Greek word that means suffering or experience. Pathos is when emotions are used as a method to pursued your audience in a presentation or argument. There are different techniques to use if you wanted to pathos into your argument.

Pathos: It is the use of emotion and affect to persuade the audience. In this appeal, the author creates an emotional statement: “ an overworked single mother may find herself over stressed and fatigued at the end of the day, making

Pathos consists in arousing the emotions of the listeners and directing those emotions in an action that should be taken. In order to use pathos in my speech, I could reference personal experiences. For example if I were having a conversation with someone who just lost a family member, I could make a connection with them by telling them about a similar loss in my

Putting together supporting evidence, reasons, and a claim in a persuasive text is a lot like building a puzzle. Without the outside border, the inside pieces won’t seem complete and without the inside pieces, you have an empty picture. Evidence and reasoning are the two basic pieces of your persuasive letter. Without these, you’ll simply have a frame—your claim—without information to complete the argument. Explaining how things connect for your reader is one of the most important ways to strengthen your argument.

Able to complete first two items of the checklist accurately and it clearly states their view in their opening sentence.

Rhetoric can best be explained as how a speaker uses persuasion to influence their intended audience. Rhetoric is usually seen as a power that we as communicators are using to obtain the belief of others. Almost everyone uses rhetoric throughout their everyday lives without even knowing. We are constantly communicating with one another trying to prove some sort of point. There are many different figures that played a huge role in establishing rhetoric, but Aristotle is seen by many as the father of rhetoric. Not only does Aristotle have an influence on people of present day, but he had an influence on other Greek philosophers such as Cicero and Quintilian. His works established a baseline of rhetoric that many people after his time took and ran with. If he were around today, Aristotle would be seen by many as a rhetorical leader who could possibly end many communication differences and problems that are present in today’s society.

‘Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the speaker [ethos]; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind [pathos]; the third on the proof, or apparent proof, provided by the words of the speech itself [logos]. Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible’.

Pathos can be a very effective technique to use when trying to induce people to follow your leadership/purchase your product. Messing with people’s emotions can have an impact on what they believe. For example, if you use excitement and joy in a commercial about a product, you can sway their interests towards your product. We can also connect and sympathize more with humans whose lives are quite similar to ours rather than evil, fictional, annoying, or oblivious animals. (Most, if not all of the animals fulfill these qualities.) This is evident when Boxer dies because even though he was the hardest worker on the farm, it still did not

Michel de Montaigne saw the dangers inherent in language: to him, rhetoric was something designed to persuade the ignorant, to deceive and flatter. Early on, he admitted that the function of grammatical jargon was to give great importance to concepts that were really very simple. The popular mode of verbal expression in the sixteenth century, the popular rhetoric, depended upon amplification and illustration. In The Art of English Poesy, George Puttenham explains that the purpose of “exornation” (ornamentation) is “to delight and allure as well the mind as the ear.” In his book, The Art of Rhetoric, Thomas Wilson argued that it was best to keep one’s syntax simple, because if clause is piled on clause “the hearers will be forced to forget full of what was said first, before the sentence be half ended, or else be blinded with confounding of many things together.” Wilson’s advice is to avoid repetition of sounds (either by alliteration, especially of vowels, or rhyme) and