Week 21: Vocabulary

An emotional appeal; persuading an audience by appealing to their emotions

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Logos

• Fatal Flaw

An ethical appeal; convincing an audience of the author’s credibility or character

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Logos

• Foreshadowing

A logical appeal; convincing an audience by use of logic or reason

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Adversary

A situation/comment suggesting or indicating something that is to happen in the future

• Adversary

• Tragic Hero

• Logos

• Foreshadowing

Something which causes an otherwise noble or exceptional character bring about their own downfall, and often, their eventual death.

• Adversary

• Dramatic Irony

• Tragic Hero

• Fatal Flaw

A person of noble birth with heroic qualities that is fated by a higher power to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering.

• Ethos

• Adversary

• Fatal Flaw

• Tragic Hero

Someone you compete, argue, or fight against.

• Tragic Hero

• Fatal Flaw

• Adversary

• Pathos

When the audience knows something that the character does not.

• Logos

• Dramatic Irony

• Fatal Flaw

• Foreshadowing

Which is an example of Pathos?

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Which is an example of Ethos?

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