Ethos, pathos, or logos?
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100

“...So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here.”

What is logos?

100

an author’s reason for writing, such as to entertain, to inform, or to persuade

What is author's purpose?

100

a structure that presents the similarities and differences between two or more things

What is compare and contrast?

100

written by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. about the racial injustices in Alabama

What is Letter From Birmingham Jail?

100

a main point that an author makes about a topic

What is central idea?

200

“But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim”

What is pathos?

200

a way of expressing something in writing or speech that is developed using various techniques

What is style?

200

a structure that gives details to help describe a topic or idea

What is descriptive?

200

retelling of the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible; Eve unnames the animals

What is "She Unnames Them"?

200

if something is stated specifically

What is explicit?

300

“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?

300

to give permission; to accept something

What is consented?

300

a structure that explains something happened and what happened as a result

What is cause and effect?

300

A dystopian short story by Franz Kafka about a village's request being denied

What is "The Refusal"?

300

If something is suggested or implied

What is implicit?

400

“Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’”

What is ethos?

400

lasting for a very short time

What is ephemeral?

400

a structure that outlines a situation and proposes how to solve it

What is problem-solution?

400
How does Eve feel after she "unnames" the animals?

She feels closer to the animals, as if the boundary between predator and prey is gone

400

the art of effective communication or persuasion

What is rhetoric?

500

“Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality.”

What is logos?

500

having knowledge or being aware of

What is cognizant?

500

a structure that presents steps in a process

What is sequence?

500

One of King's central ideas in "Letter From Birmingham Jail"

1. Racial injustice affects everyone, everywhere.

2. Unjust laws shouldn't be followed.

3. Sympathizing with racism only worsens the problem.

500

the methods that a speaker uses to persuade an audience

What are rhetorical appeals? (ethos, pathos, logos)