A speech is an expression or the ability to express thoughts and feelings through words and is directed towards an audience. The speeches “President Bush Outlines Iraq Threat” and “Speech to the Virginia Convention” are remarkably similar. By the use of pathos ethos, and loaded language, both speakers spoke to their audience with a passionate emotion. Pathos is an appeal to emotion, which both speakers used in their phenomenal speech. In “Speech to the Virginia Convention” Henry mentioned that if we have submission, it leads to weakness which means we are stepping on masculinity. He also used the word “slavery” which appeals to fear and the value of freedom along with the words chains, rivets, bind, and british soldiers in holmes. In bush’s
They both have a strong passionate form of pathos. The speech to the Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry is most known for its last line of pathos! ¨Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!¨ (Henry, 126). He also tries to reason with all the people suffering from the british government. ¨We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament¨ (Henry, 125). Reagan uses the same form of persuasion. Reagan uses pathos to get all the sufferers to realize he knows how they feel. ¨Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same--still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state¨, (Reagan). Once he has all the people who have suffered listening to him, he uses ¨hope¨, an emotion, to persuade the audience to withstand their corrupt government. ¨Yet I do not come here to lament. For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph¨,
In the “180” movie Ray Comfort outstandingly used rhetorical appeal throughout his argument in a thorough way to further grasp his audience’s attention. He used pathos, ethos, and logos during the course of his dispute of abortion and the Holocaust. Comfort uses pathos more frequently than the other two appeals, to plea to the audience’s heart strings. An example of when pathos was used was when
According to Blitzer’s Rhetorical Situation the main components in a speech are looking for a fitting response, an audience that’s listening, constraints and a rhetorical response. (Bitzer, 1968) The speech that I used to illustrate what Bitzer’s rhetorical situation was the speech President Obama gave about the shooting that took place in Connecticut, at the Sandy Hook Elementary school. The school shooting took place on December 14th, 2012. A twenty-year-old man by the name of Adam Lanza shot and killed twenty-six people then killed himself; Adam Lanza killed twenty children and six adults. In this speech, I will tell you Obama’s exigence, audience, constraints, and fitting response.
Pathos is a quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy, and sorrow. She uses this to connect to the people by bringing up her personal experiences in life. As shown in the speech, “My friends, we’ve come to Philadelphia- the birthplace of our nation- because what happened in this city 240 years ago still has something to teach us today” (Line 35-36).. Hillary says “my friends” as referring to the American people, she considers everyone as important and this causes people to feel good about themselves. Also, she uses allusion to show how the past still impacts our world today. Another device uses is point of view, “Teachers who change lives. Entrepreneurs who see possibilities in every problem. Mothers who lost children to violence and are building a movement to keep other kids safe” (Lines 104-106). The point of view is used in third person, and emphasizes her point that she is trying to make. This quotes is also pathos, she is connecting to real people and what they go through in everyday life. Pathos is one appeal that touches the heart of general people.
A speech utilizes information that may be interesting to the audience or that which is known. This is to make sure that information relayed creates the desired impact. The president has used factual information, examples, emotions and a persuading tone to urge the leaders to work together with him so as to ensure the welfare of the people. He has been able to explain the efforts of the people and where the leaders might be failing to influence positively on the people. Accordingly, he has explained to the people the methods which can be effective in ensuring that they remain committed to the people they serve. In addition, he had explained his personal commitment to the same.
Through Pathos, the author uses emotions to connect with the audiences. For example, from the author personal experience, he states, “My fear and discomfort crept beyond the borders of my classroom and accompanied me out onto the wide boulevards, where, no matter how hard I tried, there was no escaping the feeling of terror I felt whenever anyone asked me a question”. This statement helps the author to connect with the audience because it shows how terrified he was and the hardship that he has been through. Like in the text he says, “no matter how hard I tried, there was no escaping the feeling of terror”. In my thoughts, the author must suffered a lot due to
Pathos helps us to connect to the world and works of any medium around us. To point out general ways King uses pathos in her writing is the impactful word choice and figurative language you can find in this piece. Some word choices that pack a punch in Kings paper are “legalized murder” and “murdering murders” (King, par. 1&5). King could have used more mild words but instead she choose these with a purpose to grab the reader's attention and cause them to be jarred enough to think more deeply about what these words are referring to. Creative figurative language you can find at the end of the piece that cause the reader to think is when she ends her paper with the call to attention of “break the chain of violent reaction is to practice nonviolence as individual and collectively through our laws and institutions” (King, par. 6). With ending on this note it makes the readers feel that they are personally responsible and that, if they care enough, they can help this
Pathos is a way of making you feel an emotion when reading the writing, When reading something you are usually left with an opinion, well that an emotion of what you feel about the article, novel, story, and ect. Staples adds pathos to this article to emphasize how bad racism was during 1986. A quote found in this article is “ As a softy who is scarcely able to take a knife to a raw chicken- let alone hold one to a person's throat- I was surprised, embarrassed, and dismayed all at once” (Staples 2). He
Speech can simply be defined as the faculty or act of expressing or describing thoughts, feelings, or perceptions ...
He uses Logos in his speech to show the reasoning behind what he is saying. For example, when Fredrick Douglass was speaking about how he will see America’s Independence Day from the slaves’ point of view. He doesn’t hesitate to declare that it never looked blacker to him due to the character and conduct of the nation and slavery. He explains his statement with reasoning making the rhetorical appeal Logos. Fredrick Douglass also uses Pathos during his speech to provoke emotion in the audience. An example is in the third to last paragraph he was expressing his anger for what America has done and that they should be punished severely. “Had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” This contains many strong words that he wants to use to provoke an emotion of rage or disapproval in the audience. He also wants to show how he feels about America’s slavery and the punishment they should face. These are two rhetorical appeals Fredrick Douglass uses in his speech to persuade the
While lacking logos and ethos, Joan uses pathos in the speech by showing passion and drive to follow the voices in her head. She wants to obey the angels that talk to her because she is their voice of reason. Joan uses bold and powerful language to get her point across such as “Paris will open its gates; or if not, we will break through them” Shakespeare n.pg.). As well as “You should always attack; and if you only hold on long enough the enemy will stop first. You don't know how to begin a battle; and you don't know how to use your cannons. And I do” (Shakespeare n.pg.). Both of these quotation show the willingness Joan has for the war and how confident she is in herself to fight. Similarly, in Henry V Act III scene i, Henry gives a speech to his fellow men in hopes to motivate them and pump them up for the next round of battle. He hopes to re energize his men, and give them confidence as they take the battle field again to finish the fight. Unlike Joan, during this speech, Henry uses both pathos and ethos. He uses pathos showing his passion and confidence about the upcoming fight and uses ethos because he is the King talking to his men.
King uses in his speech is Pathos, which is the appeal to someone 's emotions or beliefs. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. presented a strong feeling towards African-American people about how they were treated as equal individuals “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” (King par. 3). Another example of pathos that Dr. King used was when he uses vocabulary and phrases, such as “I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream” (King par. 12). He uses the appeal of emotion, especially the word of choice and diction to let his audience’s know what he would like to see in the
President Obama’s memorial speech following the Tuscan shooting carefully utilized the Aristotelian appeal of pathos, or emotional appeals through his word choice, which aligned him with the American people while still conveying a sense of authority, and his use of biblical allusions, which drew his audience together on the basis of shared ideologies.
Mr. Dutton used pathos by starting his speech with attention grabbing words that evokes positive emotions from the audience. He also gives a lot of examples like how people like junk food. He gave very specific examples. He used beautiful visuals when he talked about the peacock. “The peacock's magnificent tail is the most famous example of this. It did not evolve for natural survival. In fact, it goes against natural survival. No, the peacock's tail results from the mating choices made by peahens.”(3) When he stated this it explained how the peacock being so colorful and beautiful kept it alive all these years. There for making the peacock evolve little to none. His way of speaking drew people’s attention. This characteristic makes him very
There are different presidential speeches that are special and convenient in their own ways. This is about how former Presidents George W. Bush and Franklin Delanor Roosevelt speeches of the two tragedies that both happened on american soil, how the two presidents presented their speech in order for us to go to war. This paper is going to be extensive, but bare with me.