Ethos Pathos Logos Essay

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Ever since the earliest form of writing and speech, there has always been three ways to catch the reader's eye, and keep the interested in the point and or essay your betraying. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Many of you may be unfamiliar for this type of writing, but as you read further, you will be surprised how often these things are really used in everything that you read, one of these are used. It’s one of the many little things that are in this world you don’t notice, until someone one opens your eyes to see a much bigger picture. Ethos is used to credibility of the person speaking to you perceived by the audience. When the speaker connects to you, and through their words, has you believe that what they are saying is true, you will more like and believe what the speaker is saying. For example, in Democratic Presidential candidate Acceptance Speech by …show more content…

Using logos, you use the facts. The reasons. This is used all throughout the world. From trials, police work, the big bang theory you name it. Logos is used to get the audience to sway your direction with reason, facts, and theory. If you come up with an idea, and your able to back it up, reason. There is and can be many examples of logos. One example that stood out to me though is a speech by Theodore Roosevelt, The Duties Of American Citizenship in New York, Buffalo January 6, 1883, “No man has the right to shirk his political duties under whatever plea of pleasure or business; and while such shirking may be pardoned in those of small means it is entirely unpardonable in those among whom it is most common-in the people whose circumstances give them freedom in the struggle of life.” Using logos, he uses the facts to help you understand what he is trying to say. And you don’t have to guess and his motives and what he’s saying. Because when you use logos, it’s the hard facts. Not something that’s not true or something that is

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