Worksheets"A Whisper of AIDS" by Mary Fisher
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
"Less than three months ago, at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV/AIDS. "
ethos and pathos
pathos and logos
logos and pathos
No appeal
Fisher points out to the audience that she is "white and a mother" and that she is "female and contracted this disease in marriage" and that she "enjoy[s] the warm support of [her] family. These characteristics, like it or not, add to her "image" thereby contributing to the _______________ of her argument.
logos
pathos
ethos
no appeal
The images of "a black infant struggling with tubes in a Philadelphia hospital" and "a lonely gay man sheltering a flickering candle from the cold wind of his family's rejection" contribute . . .
logos
pathos
ethos
no appeal
"This is not a distant threat; it is a present danger. The rate of infection is increasing fastest among women and children. Largely unknown a decade ago, AIDS is the third leading killer of young-adult Americans today-but it won't be third for long. Because, unlike other diseases, this one travels. Adolescents don't give each other cancer or heart disease because they believe they are in love."
This passage demonstrates mostly logos.
This passage demonstrates mostly pathos.
This passage demonstrates mostly ethos.
This passage demonstrates no Aristotelian appeal.
"My call to you, my Party, is to take a public stand no less compassionate than that of the President and Mrs. Bush . . . With the President's leadership, much good has been done; much of the good has gone unheralded; as the President has insisted, much remains to be done."
Mostly logos.
Mostly pathos.
Mostly ethos.
No appeal.
Fisher quotes Martin Niemoller's poem "First They Came" , then says, "The lesson history teaches is this: If you believe you are safe, you are at risk."
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
She got all 3 that time.
"Tonight, HIV marches resolutely toward AIDS in more than a million American homes, littering its pathway with the bodies of the young. Young men. Young women. Young parents. Young children. One of the families is mine. If it is true that HIV inevitably turns to AIDS, then my children will inevitably turn to orphans."
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
She got all 3 at once.
"God bless the children, and God bless us all."
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
No appeal.
"The reality of AIDS is brutally clear. Two hundred thousand Americans are dead or dying; a million more are infected. Worldwide forty million, or sixty million or a hundred million infections will be counted in the coming few years."
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
No appeal.
"In the darkest hours, I have seen them [President Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush] reaching not only to me, but also to my parents, armed with that stunning grief and special grace that comes only to parents who have themselves leaned too long over the bedside of a dying child." (Note: the President and his wife lost a young child to leukemia in 1953).
logos and pathos
ethos and pathos
no appeal
all three appeals
