Examples Of Ethos Pathos Logos

Have you ever gotten persuaded into doing or buying something? There are things called rhetorical devices that many speakers use to persuade their audience. These are called ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is used to show the authors credibility. Pathos is when the speaker touches the audience’s heart and emotions. Logos is when the information is logic. Pathos is the most efficient and most used rhetorical device because so many people are affected emotionally by what they see on tv. An example of pathos could be if an advertisement for a healthy dog food brand made the dog look super sad and lonely until it eats the food. This is not logic because the food doesn't actually make the dog happier. It could possibly be ethos, but pathos is the

Kennedy talks about how the country needs to avoid division and come closer together through the terrible death of Martin Luther King Jr. When Kennedy said this, it made people feel like if they don't learn to love everyone it could cause a divide. This makes the audience feel fear because they don’t want out country to go to ruin. Also, when he talks about violence it could cause people to feel anxious and worried about what could happen if we don’t learn to have compassion for each other. Kennedy is also appealing to their inner sense of love by discussing how America should feel justice towards those that suffer. He also makes the audience feel a sense of unity when he says that we should love each other no matter our race. Overall, this evidence proves the Kennedy used pathos in this speech to make the audience feel love for everyone in

I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man. But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to go beyond these rather difficult times.” The evidence proves that Kennedy is using pathos to evoke the feeling of perseverance in the audience. At first Kennedy discusses how someone in his family was killed which could evoke a feeling of sadness in the audience. When someone talks about a death most people understand how it feels which can make them feel a sense of understanding. Death is a sad topic so the audience might not only feel understanding but also sad. After Kennedy talks about this, he discusses how we have to forgive each other. This gives the audience a feeling of forgiveness and will start to calm them down. The most important part of this evidence is the last part that says that we have to keep going even in difficult times. The crowd all knows how the death of Martin Luther King will affect America and so when Kennedy says this it reminds them to persevere. Overall, this piece of evidence calms the audience down and makes them feel a sense of perseverance and