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Ethos
Establish credibility: demonstrating knowledge; establishing common ground: and demonstrating fairness.
Logos
An appeal to logic: providing examples and precedents; citing authority and testimony; establishing cause and effects.
Pathos
An appeal to passion and emotion: using description and concrete language; using figurative language (metaphors, similes, analogies); shaping your appeal to your audience.
Judge or Jury
has to make a decision about some past event. Was it just or unjust?
Legislator or voter
has to make a decision about some future action. Is it advantageous or disadvantageous?
Spectator
has to make a judgment about an individual’s character. Is person acting noble or shameful?
Forensic Rhetoric
aims at persuading an audience that a particular past action was just or unjust
Deliberative Rhetoric
aims at persuading an audience that a future action is advantageous or disadvantageous.
Epideictic Rhetoric
aims at persuading an audience that a particular subject/individual is noble or base.
Narration
Tells a story in chronological order; has a beginning, middle, and end, but not necessarily in that sequence.
Description
Uses sensory details and analogies; uses the concrete to convey the abstract.
Illustration
Uses examples to support ideas.
Definition
Specifies the subject; gives a precise meaning.
Division
Separates the main subject into its elements and examines the relationship between the elements.
Classification
seperates a large group into smaller gorups based on the charateristics of the individual terms.
