Learning How to Use the Three Main Rhetorical Styles

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Learning How to Use the Three Main Rhetorical Styles The Art of Rhetoric Learning How to Use the Three Main Rhetorical Styles (logos, ethos, pathos)

According to Aristotle. . . rhetoric is "the ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion." Rhetoric refers to the articulation of speech for the purpose of persuading He described three main forms of rhetoric: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

Logos Documents distributed by companies or Logos is appeal based on logic or reason. Documents distributed by companies or corporations are logos-driven. Scholarly documents are also often logos- driven.

EXAMPLE: logos ACME's new dihydro-cesium detonation process By combining cesium and dihydro-oxide in laboratory conditions, and capturing the released energy, ACME has promised to lead the way into the future. Our energy source is clean, safe, and powerful. No pollutants are released into the atmosphere. The world will soon have an excellent source of clean energy. ACME is currently working towards a patent on our process. Our scientists are exploring ways to use the process in cars, houses, airplanes, and almost anything else that needs power. ACME batteries will be refitted with small dihydro-cesium reactors. Once the entire world is powered by ACME's generators, we can all relax and enjoy a much easier life. A typical example of energy released from the dihydro-cesium process.

Explanation: Logos is an argument based on logic or reason. The ACME Research page is primarily logos-based because it appeals to the reason of people reading it. It suggests that Cesium will provide the world's energy for a very long time. It is clean, safe, and efficient, all of which are appeals to the logic of the audience. By using such convincing reasons in it's argument, ACME hopes to provide the world's energy.

Ethos Ethos is appeal based on the character/reputation/credibility of the speaker. An ethos-driven document relies on the reputation of the author. Think of ethics or being ethical – we would know the speaker to be an “ethical and reliable” source.

EXAMPLE: ethos Acme Gizmotronics, the company that you've trusted for over 100 years, has recently entered the World Wide Web! Now you can purchase our fine products through the internet. Our quality gizmos, widgets, and thingamabobs can be shipped to you within minutes. All come with the famous lifetime guarantee that makes Acme the company that the world depends on for it's gizmo needs. ACME is currently supporting research into a form of clean, ultra-efficient, cesium-based power that promises to usher in a new period of cheap, globally available power. Based on a small island off the coast of Costa Rica, ACME Technology Research is one of our most significant divisions. Our spokesperson, Mr. Coyote says, "I'm not really a coyote, but I play one on TV. I've used Acme products for years. Their slingshots, rocket launchers, crowbars, pogo sticks, and power pills are the best around. And don't forget their high-powered dynamite! I buy everything from Acme. They are the company that I trust the most.”

Explanation: Ethos is an argument based on ethics. (ACME is not a real company, contrary to popular belief. It's something we made up to use as an example of Ethos.) The ACME homepage is an example of ethos because of the way it keeps referring back to the character of ACME. ACME is a company that "you have trusted for over 100 years.“ They even have a spokesperson (Wylie Coyote) vouching for their integrity.

Pathos Pathos is appeal based on emotion. Most advertisements tend to be pathos- driven. Think “apathy, pathetic, apathetic”.

Cesium-Based Reactor Kills! EXAMPLE: pathos Cesium-Based Reactor Kills! A baby turtle breaks free from the leathery shell of its egg, catching its first glimpse of its first sunrise. It pauses a moment to rest, unaware of the danger that lies so close to it. As the tide comes in, approaching the nest, it also approaches a small pile of metal - cesium. The water draws closer and closer, the turtle unsuspecting of the danger. Finally, the water touches the cesium. The nest is torn to bits in the resulting explosion, destroying even more of an endangered species.

Cesium-Based Reactor Kills! EXAMPLE: pathos Cesium-Based Reactor Kills! Why does this happen? One name: Acme. Acme Gizmotronics is supporting a dihydro-cesium reactor, trying, in their anthrocentrism, to squeeze energy out of such destructive explosions. And, they are dumping waste cesium onto the shores of their island, threatening the environment. Studies have shown that the dihydro-cesium reactor will destroy the island's ecosphere in less than four months! How can they get away with this? Costa Rica (where the island is near) has lax environmental laws, allowing Acme to do whatever they want - including destroy endangered species. What can you do about this? Don't let them get away with it! Boycott Acme products! And call your representatives, and tell them you support stricter legislation to prevent things like this!

Explanation: Pathos is an argument based on emotion, playing on sympathy, fears, and desires. The Say "NO!" To Acme! page is pathos-based because it relies on an emotional response from the people reading it. By stressing the helplessness of the (endangered) turtle, it attempts to sway people to its side, against the "commercial hordes" of Acme.

Practice Outlining and Identifying Logos, Ethos, and Pathos Thesis: The commercial is (Logos, Pathos, Ethos) driven. I. Visual (what the audience sees) _ _ II. Auditory (what the audience hears) III. Verbal (What the audience is told)