When Joe Clark first met his students he used pathos by telling the students who didn't get kicked out that if they do not pass the state exam they won't be welcomed back into the school. The staff had it coming for them when Joe scheduled a meeting after he found out the scores on the practice test, Joe used pathos to make the staff guilty for how poor the kids did on the test by blaming them for such low scores. Finally he used pathos to encourage his students to do well on the test, reminding them what they have been working for the whole time. Joe Clark persuaded his staff and students to work hard by using pathos to send an emotional
Some examples of the use of pathos come from “Chapter 4, Sold Again”, it seems that everything is going good, because a man named Daniel Queen was educating him and even became a father figure to him. Then everything abruptly changed when his master decided to sell him and threatened to kill him if he were to get out of his sight. This part of the text changed everything and may even sadden the reader because while reading this part of the text the reader, may think about being in Equianos shoes and how horrible that may be. Equianos needs to make the reader sympathize for him in order to make the reader realize the horrid conditions that he went through in his struggle through
Pathos is used when LaBarge presents the solution of this problem to parents. He says the only way to fix the downfall of heroism is to teach our children the stories of the civil rights activists and other human rights leaders and leave out the talk about celebrities and
This is a good way of using pathos to connect with the
Pathos is commonly related to diction and tone, which collaboratively invoke an emotional response from the audience. Strong wording helps persuade the readers because diction and tone, if done correctly, can induce an extreme emotion; thus, making the audience feel passionate about the topic. To exemplify ethos, logos, and pathos, let us explore a recent discussion in my political policy class: performance enhancement
Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. Just after the author spoke upon the nearly 100 deaths football players conjure due to concussion related injuries; the reader sees a picture of young boys in their football pads. This makes the reader think about their children or loved ones. They don’t want anything to happen to them. Under the photo in the third paragraph the author is appealing to the emotions of the parents by summing up that it’s not just professional that accrue concussions.
Lastly, pathos is the appeal to emotion. I could give background information of my thoughts and feelings during the police raids of my house and how hard my sisters cried because of the ‘scary’ men and dogs that would search through everything.
Pathos emotionally connects with the reader. Outliers shows many examples, one would be the story of 12-year-old Marita living in a one-bedroom apartment with her mom. To reach her success “I wake up at five-forty-five a.m. to get a head start, I brush my teeth, shower. I get some breakfast at school, if I am running late…” (Gladwell, 264).
Pathos is a rhetorical device used for providing emotion to the reader. He wants the reader to feel sympathetic towards the mistreatment of African-Americans. In the introduction, the first rhetorical device he introduced is pathos. Coates present pathos when he introduced Clyde Ross. He titles the first chapter as, “So that’s just one of my losses”.
The definition of pathos is the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion. In other words, it is a way that authors and/or writers get to the audience’s emotions. Spurlock uses pathos by affecting the emotions of his audience with children. The beginning of the documentary shows kids singing and dancing. That automatically affects people’s emotions.
Pathos uses emotions which is also an effective way to persuade your audience. Giving a personal experience or evoking emotions is an effective way to make the reader relate to or understand what the author has been through. Selingo gives multiple examples from his personal experience such as,“a college student who attended a job- training program in Boston told [him that] he was surprised when the sessions were not canceled after an overnight snowstorm. He said professors in college regularly canceled classes for all sorts of reasons, including the weather”(para. 13 ).
Music, for many, is a form of communication that cannot otherwise be expressed through a simple word or gesture. In “The Myth of Music” by Rachel M. Harper, the speaker conveys the closeness and authority she feels over music in her life, specifically in terms of the relationship she has with her family, by using (metaphorical) diction and shift in tone, effectively relaying the shield she has put up to protect personal experiences through musical memories. Harper conveys the fact that everyone has been intertwined with music throughout their entire life whether they realize it or not. From the moment someone is born into the world, they are introduced to music. Music is not classified as just instruments and vocals, but rather it’s all around
Music is a huge part of our modern culture. One might take for granted that music education would be in our schools’ curriculums without question. Surprisingly, it does not actually have a very secure place in a surprising number of schools in the U.S. Fortunately, many people see the importance of music education and currently advocate for it so that it does not lose its place in their school. Peter Greene, an English Teacher and tailgate trombonist who has written numerous articles on the faults with America’s education system, believes that the ways many people go about defending music education are not the best.
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything” (Plato). If my childhood was filled with anything: it was imagination. From my earliest memories of my cousin, and I putting on a sold out concert on my papaw’s front porch; to putting my baby dolls to sleep with lullabies. Music has always been a big part of my life: it was the one thing I could always count on, no matter where I went; and that still stands true today.
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in” (Greene, 1904-1991). Music is essential to every person’s life and seems to be involved in every activity of a child’s life from the moment they wake until they go to bed. Recent studies have shown that music (listening and playing instruments) have many impacts on children, especially in early stages of development of the child’s “body, brain, and their emotion foundations that support us for the rest of our lives” (Borgese, n.d.). There are also many other factors that affect child development like type/genre of music both violent and nonviolent that may contribute or hinder the future child’s behavior. Different music can have different effects on people, people don’t absorb the effect of music the same way.
