Patrick Henry: logos, pathos, ethos

use of facts/logic/reasoning to convince an audience

use of emotional appeals (shock, sadness, anger, humor, shame, nostalgia, etc.) to convince an audience

Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned... (continued list of actions they've taken)

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

appeals to authority (OR to ethics) to convince people (ex. seeing a celebrity in an advertisement and wanting to buy the product)

...we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House.

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. [The naval ships of war] are meant for us...

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

Patrick Henry was trying to convince the Virginia Convention to...

• send over another peaceful petition for independence to Great Britain

• wait awhile before declaring war against Britain for independence

• go to war against Britain - it's their last option for independence

• elect him as the Army General