Rhetorical Devices
Ethos, logos, or pathos?
“Incredible,” Zeus who marshals the thunderheads replied. “Earth-shaker, you with your massive power, why moaning so? The gods don’t disrespect you. What a stir there’d be if they flung abuse at the oldest, noblest of them all. Those mortals? If any man, so lost in his strength and prowess, pays you no respect—just pay him back. The power is always yours. Do what you like. Whatever warms your heart.”
Logos
Ethos, logos, or pathos?
it’s longing for him, him that wrings my heart— Odysseus, lost and gone! That man, old friend, far away as he is … I can scarcely bear to say his name aloud, so deeply he loved me, cared for me, so deeply. Worlds away as he is, I call him Master, Brother!”
Pathos
Ethos, logos, or pathos?
Then down they sat by the sacred olive’s trunk to plot the death of the high and mighty suitors. The bright-eyed goddess Athena led the way: “Royal son of Laertes, Odysseus, old campaigner, think how to lay your hands on all those brazen suitors, lording it over your house now, three whole years, courting your noble wife, offering gifts to win her. But she, forever broken-hearted for your return, builds up each man’s hopes—
Ethos