Appeals and Argument 1
This appeal relies on emotion and audience feelings.
Emotional Appeal or Pathos
Emotional
Mr. Wiegers endorses THIS type of appeal, which makes you want to buy the product.
Ethical Appeal
How will you be able to recovery the Unit 1 Test
This appeal relies on logic, evidence, and reasoning.
Logical appeal or Logos
The author and their qualifications (or lack thereof) are known as THIS part of SPACECAT.
Speaker
9 out of 10 dentists agree that THIS is the type of appeal used in similar advertisements.
Logical Appeal
What is an author's diction?
Their Word choice that influences the tone.
This appeal relies on credibility or trustworthiness.
Ethical Appeal or Ethos
Kevin writes an opinion piece to the local paper about the effects the rising costs of gas have on he and his family due to the Iran war. This exemplifies this important part of SPACECAT.
Jefferson is giving a speech about the dangers of removing metal detectors from schools. His peers and CHS administration are this part of SPACECAT.
Audience
What is the tone of this Abraham Lincoln quote?
“I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
What is Appealing, Patriotic, Optimistic, Hopeful, Conciliatory, or Inspirational tone?
If our community continues losing 200 acres of farmland each year, projections indicate that local food production will decline by nearly 30% within the next decade.
Which APPEAL is being used AND what specific type/example of the appeal?
Logos (Statistics and Prediction)
In 2026, the school board has to enact special policies based on a tax abatement they are facing for three years. When the school board revisits these policies in the future, they must consider this part of SPACECAT.
Context
Torie and Elyse make a satirical TikTok to shed light on the school's new grading policy. This part of SPACECAT takes the satire and sarcasm into account.
What is the tone of this quote?
“ Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you can not fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.”
Logical, Reasoned, Cautionary, Persuasive, or reflective
Because I have spent three decades studying climate patterns, I trust the overwhelming consensus of researchers who conclude that temperatures are rising due to human activity.
Which appeal is mostly relied on? Why?
Ethos
Noah is trying to get a summer job. His cover letter's reasoning best exemplifies THIS part of SPACECAT.
Purpose
Choices