ETHOS/PATHOS/LOGOS
"when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking, 'Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?'"
What is Pathos
"..one may ask: 'How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?' The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust"
What is hypophora
MLK’s clergymen (mostly white)
What is the Audience
January 15th 1929
What is MLK's birthdate
Number of language cues we presented
What is seven
"In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this a logical assertion? Isn’t this like condemning a robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robber?”
What is Logos
"It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire"
What is Allusion
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (fighting for equality; to dissolve segregation between white and colored)
What is the speaker
April 4th 1968
What is MLK's death date
Appealing to ones emotions
What is Pathos
"Was not Jesus an extremist for love: ‘Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you….Abraham Lincoln: ‘This nation cannot survive half slave and half free...”
What is Ethos
"Isn't this like condemning a robbed man...Isn't this like condemning Socrates because his unswerving commitment...Isn't this like condemning Jesus.."
What is parallel structure
To get people (his clergymen) to join his cause, join the civil rights movement
What is the Audience
MLK's home town
What is Atlanta, Georgia
Appeals to reasoning, factual evidence and leads audience through a logical chain of events
What is Logos
"In no sense do I advocate [support] evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy [disorder, chaos] one who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty”
What is Ethos
"when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness'"
What is alliteration
During the civil rights movement, when MLK was in jail for participating in a demonstration
What is the Occasion
MLK's place of death
What is Memphis, Tennessee
Credible sources, best interests of the audience and demonstrates a willingness to recognize other viewpoints
What is Ethos
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was “well-timed” in view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation."
What is Pathos
"The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet like speed toward gaining political independence."
What is an Exaggeration
Encouraging people to join the civil rights movement
What is the subject
Full name of MLK's assassinator
Whos is James Earl Bay
Your presenters of this presentation (Full name)
Who is Eunice Han and McKenna Fialdini