How can an author get the reader attention? Readers don’t like to read boring books, articles or essay. There are many strategy an author can use such as an ethos, pathos, and logos. The author can either use an emotional appeal, which is pathos, the usage of statistic and facts makes it logos, when an author builds up their character they are using ethos. When analyzing I asked myself what are these concepts used for and how can one recognize these strategies when reading? When reading an argument you may see lots of fact but all of a sudden the story starts to get emotional, that’s logos with a touch of pathos. Author will never use just one of these strategies they will mix it, but one of them will be predominating; meaning it will be use the most throughout the story. Logos, language that appeals to logic, is the type of language associated with reasoning. Reasons, denotative meanings, and informed opinions are some examples logos uses. According to Nancy V. Wood “readers …show more content…
Pathos, ethos, and logos are usually use in an argumentative essays and or to “spice” the argument. These strategies are called the elements of persuasion. Majority of the time you will see ads use pathos when persuading someone to donate or buy. For example in an advertisement about adoption you may see images of small children living in horrible conditions, and some maybe crying or looking sad. With these kind of images they expect the audience to feel sorrowful, and it will urge them to adopt a child. Ethos is used when a writer goals is to gain the reader’s trust. Once the writer have the audience trust they will make sure they use precise language and express what they mean. On the other hand logos is used to state factual data and statistics. They are used to get a rational response from a