Last Week Review

Match the following

• the author tries to appeal to a reader's intelligence

• Logos

• the author tries to appeal to a reader's passion

• Ethos

• the author tries to boost their credibility, and appeal to the reader's "moral compass"

• Pathos

If an author is appealing to logos, they might...

• try to be logical and rational

• use personal stories in their argument

• use cause and effect arguments

• try to speak to a person's moral compass

Which of the following are components of PATHOS?

• appealing to the audience's values

• emotional words

• personal stories

• giving examples

"Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men..."

Here, Frederick Douglass is using what type of persuasive appeal? Why do you think that?

 "I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the celebration of the glorious anniversary of independence!" Here, Frederick Douglass is using what type of persuasive appeal?

BEFORE you read a complex text, you have to find the ______________.

AFTER you read, it is important to find the ___________________ and __________________.

"But I fancy I hear some of my audience say, “Would you argue more, and denounce less; would you persuade more, and rebuke less; your cause would be much more likely to succeed.” What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue?" Here, Frederick Douglass is using...

I think the main idea, or author's purpose, of Frederick Douglass' speech "What, to a Slave, is the Fourth of July? is...

Which type of appeal (ethos, pathos, logos) to you see being used most often in “the real world”?

Think news, tik tok, a celebrity’s instagram caption, commercials, billboards…