Political speech vocab Flashcards
Ethos pathos logos
Ethos - ‘What gives you the authority (personal character) to speak before me today?’
Pathos - ‘Why (persuasion) should I care, emotionally, about what you are saying?’
Logos - ‘How does your speech makes sense, logically (argument)? Give me persuasive arguments to take action.’
Allusion
Attention grabber
Bond
Destination
Figurative language
parllelism
anaphora
varied sentence length and effect
Allusion - Allusion is when one refers to the words of someone else. Including allusion in a speech gives it more ethos.
Attention grabber - You can grab the audience’s attention in several ways, with a quote, a joke, or a big, bold statement.
Bond - Gaining a rapport with your audience is easier when you say inclusive plurals like ‘we’, ‘our’, or ‘us’. Bond is very much a part of ethos.
Destination - Where is this speech going? Why should people continue to listen?
Figurative language- Using metaphors and similes is one way of making abstract ideas become concrete.
Parallelisms - A parallelism is grammatical construction in which the form of several sentence parts line up nicely in a sequence.
Anaphora - This refers to the repetition of a particular idea or phrase.
Varied sentence length - Long sentences with many clauses, which state several points related to the main point like this one, can become highly effective when off-set with a kind of powerful punchy small sentence that follows shortly thereafter. This is one.
