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How Does Michelle Obama Use Ethos Pathos Logos

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The Author is Michelle Obama and her speech is titled Read Michelle Obama’s full speech from 2016 DNC. written in 2016. Michelle obama is making this speech to make people to vote for Hillary Clinton. Micelle uses logos, pathos and ethos to persuade her audience to vote for hillary. Pathos is a greek word meaning ‘suffering’ or ‘experience’, and it is used in persuasive speech as an appeal to the emotions of the audience. Pathos is the way of creating a persuasive argument by evoking an emotional response in the audience/reader Ex: if you don't buy this life insurance, you are letting your family down. “ because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingerprints and the military in your command, you can't make snap decisions you can have a thin skin or a technology to lash out, you need to be steady and measure and well informed” (obama,2016).This evidence fits the definition of pathos because it's meant to scare u because you do not want someone to be your president when they are not the brightest of everyone and they are creating a emotion to get people scared.Pathos is used to make …show more content…

In terms of persuasive language, it is an appeal to authority and credibility. Ethos is meaning of convincing an audience or a reliable character or famous person.ex: as a doctor i can say that this product will certainly improve your health. “I trust Hillary to lead his country because i’ve seen her lifelong devotion to our nation’s children, not just her own daughter, who she has raised to perfection…” (Michelle Obama, 2016). This evidence fits the definition because hillary is a well known person and she is a credible source people like her and they will do what she does because she has money and she is well known.Ethos is used by persuading people by using a famous person to get there way like they are using credibility,Michelle used pathos and ethos most of time but she used logos throughout the speech but not as much as

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