Persuasive Techniques: Malala Nobel Prize Speech

Persuasive Techniques: Malala Nobel Prize Speech

Taking a closer look at Malala's Nobel Prize Speech and her use of ethos, pathos, and logos

Learning Targets!

• RI6 - I can determine the author’s purpose 

  (focus on persuasion)

• W1 - I can write an argument

  
  

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be a technique that implements logos?

• Using pictures of a hurt child
• Including research 
• Having someone credible who agrees with you
• Making people laugh

Multiple Choice

The appeal to ethics and credibility is also called 

• pathos
• ethos
• logos

Multiple Choice

The appeal to logic is also called

• pathos
• ethos 
• logos

Multiple Choice

The appeal to emotion is also called

• pathos
• logos
• ethos

Multiple Choice

The three rhetorical appeals are...

• pathos, logos, cheereos
• burritos, ethos, logos
• ethos, pathos, logos
• ethos, logoes, pathos

Multiple Choice

The 3 elements to the art of persuasion are known as....

• Rhetorical Appeals
• Rhetorical Devices

Multiple Choice

• ethos
• pathos
• logos

Let's take a look at Malala's Nobel Prize Speech for Persuasive Techniques

Some may be just a bit tricky...

Multiple Choice

"Education is one of the blessings of life—and one of its necessities. That has been my experience during the 17 years of my life. In my paradise home, Swat, I always loved learning and discovering new things. I remember when my friends and I would decorate our hands with henna on special occasions. And instead of drawing flowers and patterns we would paint our hands with mathematical formulas and equations."

Which of the following rhetorical appeals is Malala using?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Multiple Choice

"But things did not remain the same. When I was in Swat, which was a place of tourism and beauty, it suddenly changed into a place of terrorism. I was just ten when more than 400 schools were destroyed. Women were flogged. People were killed. And our beautiful dreams turned into nightmares. Education went from being a right to being a crime."

Which of the following two rhetorical appeals is Malala using?

• Ethos and logos

• Pathos and logos

• Ethos and pathos

Multiple Choice

"I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls. I am those 66 million girls who are deprived of education. And today I am not raising my voice, it is the voice of those 66 million girls. Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them. But I think the more important question is why shouldn’t they? Why shouldn’t they have this right to go to school?"

Which of the following rhetorical appeals is Malala using?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Multiple Choice

"One of my very good school friends, the same age as me, who had always been a bold and confident girl, dreamed of becoming a doctor. But her dream remained a dream. At the age of 12, she was forced to get married. And then soon she had a son. She had a child when she herself was still a child—only 14. I know that she could have been a very good doctor. But she couldn’t . . . because she was a girl."

Which of the following rhetorical appeals is Malala using

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Multiple Choice

"Dear brothers and sisters, great people who brought change, like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Aung San Suu Kyi, once stood here on this stage. I hope the steps that Kailash Satyarthi and I have taken so far and will take on this journey will also bring change—lasting change. My great hope is that this will be the last time we must fight for education. Let’s solve this once and for all."

Which of the following rhetorical appeals is Malala using?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Open Ended

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