How Appealing!
This appeal focuses on facts and reason.
Logos
This is one of the most straightforward devices to find because of its distinctive punctuation mark.
Rhetorical Question
A man escapes an abusive environment that restricts him intellectually, spiritually, and physically.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Your stare was holdin'
Ripped jeans, skin was showin'
Hot night, wind was blowin'
Where you think you're goin', baby?
Rhetorical Question
“I need an army of lawyers like you, Sam. An army of lawyers who don’t even know they want to make a difference… Who I can train.”
Marshall
This appeal focuses on emotion.
Pathos
Anaphora and antistrophe are types of this device that deals with repeated patterns of words.
Parallelism
A man doesn't want to do the controversial thing that his brother already said he'd do. He just wants to swim laps, bro.
Marshall
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Parallelism
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;"
Emerson
Ethos can focus on either of these two things.
Credibility or Authority
This term deals with the logical correlation between two events. Although the term uses two specific words, these two words do not need to appear in the text for it to be considered this.
If/Then
A man wanders around, considering what it might be like to be a transparent eyeball (maybe with legs) in the wild.
Nature (Emerson)
Baby, you're a firework!
C'mon, let your colors burst.
Analogy or metaphor
“The motto which I adopted...- ‘Trust no man!’”
Frederick Douglass
This type of pathos focuses on a person's love of their country or community.
Appeal to Patriotism
This term describes when an author is comparing two things (side by side) to create a contrasting effect.
Juxaposition
A man is like, "We can't handle anarchy, but it could be cool if we could."
Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes"
Allusion
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."
Thoreau
This type of pathos focuses on a person's need to feel good about themself.
Appeal to Vanity
This device references a work (book, religious text, historical event, mythology) outside the speech.
Allusion
This text suggests that being misunderstood is a good thing.
Self-Reliance (Emerson)
No more hiding, I'll be shinin' like I'm born to be
'Cause we are hunters, voices strong, and I know I believe
Juxtaposition
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.
Patrick Henry