WorksheetsEthos, Logos, and Pathos in Speeches
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
The person responsible for creating the three methods of persuasion is ?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
_____ is appealing to the speaker's authority or credibility.
ethos
logos
pathos
FDR "the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked" uses specific adverbs to appeal to __________.
logic
emotion
credibility
Truman states "That bomb had more power that 20,000 tons of TNT" using which rhetorical appeal?
ethos
logos
pathos
Eisenhower states " In the councils of government, we must guard" appealing to_______.
emotion
logic
authority
JFK uses the phrase "my fellow Americans" to appeal to
emotion
logic
credibility
JFK states, " All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner'" appealing to
credibility
emotion
logic
MLK primarily appeals to _____________ in his phrase, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
emotion
logic
credibility
When LBJ states "There is no constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain" he is appealing mainly to_______.
logic
emotion
credibility
LBJ mainly appeals to _________ when he says "Yet as long as others will challenge America's security and test the dearness of our beliefs with fire and steel, then we must stand or see the promise of two centuries tremble."
emotion
logic
credibility
When MLK uses the phrases "Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press" he is calling on the Constitution to add ___________ to his argument.
credibility
logic
emotion
When MLK states "I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you," he is adding ____________ to his argument.
authority
emotion
logic
RFK states "what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another " as an appeal to___.
logic
emotion
credibility
Nixon states "I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me" using ____________.
ethos
logos
pathos
Reagan uses ________ when he states "the future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them."
ethos
logos
pathos
George H. W. Bush uses ________ in his line "just 2 hours ago, allied air forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait. These attacks continue as I speak. Ground forces are not engaged. "
logos
pathos
ethos
George H.W. Bush uses ___________in his line, "when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor. Kuwait"
ethos
logos
pathos
Clinton cites figures like "over 20 million new jobs; the fastest economic growth in more than 30 years; the lowest unemployment rates in 30 years; the lowest poverty rates in 20 years" to add _______ to his speech.
pathos
logos
ethos
Gore stating "Now the U.S. Supreme Court has spoken" adds _____ to his argument
credibility
emotion
logic
Bush primarily uses __________ in his speech. For example he states, "I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people -- and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!"
ethos
logos
pathos
Obama states "Our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand" which adds ___________ to his speech.
emotion
logic
authority
Obama adds ____________ to his speech with the statement, " if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see?"
ethos
logos
pathos
"A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.
" is stated by Obama to add _________ to his argument.
ethos
logos
pathos
