In English 1302 the class talked about the the lyric songs in Act 1 in the musical Hamilton. In class we discussed about deeper meanings of the lyrics in the songs and the relationship between Hamilton and Burr. Also, we had to do a cover letter and a resume for a superhero applying for a certain job.
Ethos, Logos, and Pathos are modes the speaker or author uses to persuade the audience. Ethos appeals to ethics or credibility, Logos appeals to logic, and Pathos appeals to emotion to persuade the audience. Ethos mostly shows up in an argument in the statements about the speaker’s intentions. Logos uses facts and logic to persuade the audience. Pathos is a way of convincing the audience of an argument by creating an emotional appeal. For example, in the play, Hamilton the first song in Act 1 talks about Alexander Hamilton’s childhood. The uses pathos because the song used an emotional appeal to the audience talking about his loneliness and how he grew up with nothing.
This week I have noticed rhetoric on an ad on tv stating how texting while driving is dangerous. The ad persuaded showed a person and their family dying because the person driving was on the phone texting leading to the death of him and his family. The ad used pathos by showing death causing an emotional appeal.
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