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Example Of Ethos Pathos Logos

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Rhetoric is a form of language that expresses persuasion. Rhetoric is not only used in educational settings, but also in other forms in a person’s day-to-day life. For example, when people get on their social media, video advertisements of certain products pop up to persuade the person to buy their product, radio stations persuade people to call and win tickets for a concert, and TV commercials persuade people to go buy a new car. This form of persuasive language is normal because it is seen and heard everywhere. It just depends on the creator to see if it actually works and gets the audience to actually be persuaded. Within this language, Aristotle created “three categories of persuasive appeal.” The first one is pathos, which is the emotional …show more content…

Through these forms of appeal, persuasion occurs. The three videos provided for this assignment represented the three rhetorical appeals, and I will discuss how each one demonstrated the ethos, pathos, and logos. The first video, Drunk History- Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, demonstrates the actual historic event in a humorous way. In this video the speaker wants to exhibit logical facts about the event through a casual language and movements to create a better understanding and also a comical way of learning this very important event in history. Some audience members will think this video is a great representation and actually understand the event better, others will question the speaker’s credibility, because she was “drunk” and the language that is being is un proper. For the most part this video does show a form of persuasion through the use of humor. I mean people would rather listen or see a drunk, short, comical, and factual representation of an event than a boring and long representation, so it does persuade people to learn about history. The second video is similar to the first. It depicts a humorous representation of John Adams and Thomas

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