Appeals
A dogs eyes staring at you through a cage about to be euthanized.
What is Pathos?
"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" (Walden, Thoreau)
What is repetition?
"Your temperature increases. You start sweating...Snot is dripping from your nose" (Burning Desire for Hot Chicken, Chau, 33)
What is Imagery?
Context
"Sales of counterfeit T-shirts may have helped finance the 1993 World Trade Center bombing" (par. 6, Terror's Purse Strings, Thomas)
Allusion: elicits fear (pathos) to convince people not to buy counterfeit
1 out of 300 people are blonde
What is logos?
"Men are still basically scum"(Turkeys in the Kitchen, 29)
What is colloquial diction?
"fatal seizure... easiest way out" Ugly truth about beauty
hyperbole
Blaming King George directly and repetition of our shows what about Thomas Jefferson's CAPP?
Audience
"I am a cripple. I choose this word to name me"(par. 2, On Being a Cripple, Mairs)
Syntax: short reveals her definitive choice and steadfastness giving credibility to her assertion (Ethos)
I have been teaching biology for 20 years at Princeton University.
What is ethos?
"government of the people, for the people, by the people"(Gettysburg Address, Lincoln)
Parallel Structure
Juxtaposition
"pay as a result of my lie?...destroyed?...out?"(Ericsson, 65)
Schemes of Questioning
"impeccable broken English" (p. 53, Mother Tongue, Tan)
Oxymoron: reveals her attitude and tone towards her mother's language and challenges the complicated bias towards unnatural English
"How dare you destroy our planet"(Greta Thunberg, How Dare You"
What is Pathos?
Asyndeton
"impeccable broken English"
oxymoron
"Dear fellow clergymen,"(Letter from Birmingham Jail)
Persona
"We shall...We shall...We shall...We shall...We shall...We shall...We shall"(Churchill, 16)
Repetition of "we" evokes feelings of unity and urges the people of Britain to come together to fight for justice.
The Red Cross claims that people exposed to nuclear radiation have a 75% chance of gaining solid cancer.
What is Ethos and Logos
Yesterday the Japanese Government also launched an attack against Malaya. Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night the Japanese attacked Wake Island. And this morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island. Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area." (Pearl Harbor Address, Roosevelt) (Two Devices)
What is repetition and inductive reasoning?
The Allegory of the cave is a _______ for human nature.
Analogy
Civil Rights movement in the midst of the letter of Birmingham jail.
Context
"he sagged flabbily to his knees... head drooping... agony of it jolting his whole body... thick blood welled out of him like red velvet, but still he did not die" (Shooting and Elephant, Orwell, 41)
The imagery of the death of the elephant elicits feelings of guilt and disgust which support Orwell's purpose in demonstrating to his audience that colonial rule is slowly killing the native culture and the colonial ethics.