Ethos, Pathos, Logos & Logical Fallacies

"I make good grades and have a high IQ and everything, but I don’t use my head." (Ponyboy)

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

"I had two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home." (Ponyboy)

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

"Johnny had it awful rough at home. It wasn’t his fault he got jumped by the Socs."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

"Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

"Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations." (Ponyboy)

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

"I knew it wasn’t any use though—the fight was already going. I had to fight back."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

"The difference between a Soc and a Greaser wasn’t money but feeling—You don’t feel anything, and we feel too violently."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

"Steve Randle was seventeen, tall and lean, with thick greasy hair he kept combed in complicated swirls."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

"We should buy this phone because everyone else has it!"

• Ad Hominem

• Bandwagon Fallacy

• Straw Man

• False Dichotomy

"You can’t believe what Jake says about healthy eating—he eats fast food all the time!"

• Ad Hominem

• Hasty Generalization

• False Causation

• False Dichotomy