1. People Who Survive: Rhetorical Analysis – “What is Poverty”
9/18/2017

2. Rhetorical Analysis: Ethos, Logos, Pathos
                                         
Rhetorical Analysis: Ethos, Logos, Pathos
Ethos – The speaker’s credibility or authority
Logos – The facts and statistics used to help support the argument
Pathos – the emotional appeal, vivid language, and sensory detail that supports an argument.

3. Rhetorical Analysis: Ethos
When a trusted doctor gives you advice, you follow the directions because you know that doctor is trustworthy and qualified, i.e. is an expert.

4. Rhetorical Analysis: Pathos
Pathos is directed toward wishes, desires, goals, and needs of a person whose acceptance is desired.
When a person accepts a claim based on how it makes them “feel” without fully looking at the reason behind the claim, that person is acting on Pathos.

5. Rhetorical Analysis: Logos
Logos is an argument based on facts, evidence, and reason. Using logos means appealing to the readers sense of what is logical.

6. Compare Parker’s experiences of poverty to the way the characters in “Marigolds” experience poverty?

7. In paragraph 14, Parker writes, “Even the poor can dream.”
Identify two things that she dreams about?
Contrast the ways her dreams are different than your dreams?

8. Hierarchy of Needs/Motives
In 1943, Abraham Maslow proposed that humans strive to ensure that basic needs are satisfied before they find motivation to pursue goals that are higher on this hierarchy.
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9. Explain Parker’s meaning in the last paragraph when she asks, “Can you be silent, too?

10. Interpret Parker’s purpose in writing this piece
Interpret Parker’s purpose in writing this piece. Use examples from the text.

11. What change or reaction is she looking for in the reader?
Evaluate the writing’s effectiveness in achieving this reaction

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