Ethos the guiding beliefs of a person, belief, or organization Found Example They are working to keep a democratic ethos alive in the community. (Merriam-Webster) Original Example The tribe set up their ethos early on in their settlement. Pathos A quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness Found Example There is pathos to the deflated certainties that left the Washington lawyer Leonard Garment weeping, inconsolable, outside the Senate chamber as the debate was ended. (Garry Wills, New York Times Book Review, 10 Sept. 1989) Original Example There is pathos to every tragedy that Shakespeare wrote. Logos The use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument Found Example All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. (The Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle) Original Example …show more content…
Metonymy a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated Found Example The pen is mightier than the sword. (Edward Bulwer Lytton, Richelieu) Original Example She’s planning to serve the dish early in the evening. Pathetic Fallacy the ascription of human traits or feelings to inanimate nature Found Example “I wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high o’er vales and hills,” (Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) Original Example The softly whistling teapot informed him it was time for breakfast. Synecdoche a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage) Found Example “Prepar’d to scrub the entry and the stairs. The youth with broomy stumps began to trace.” (Swift, The Description of the