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Step-by-step explanation:
Logos appeals to the audience's reason, building up logical arguments. Ethos appeals to the speaker's status or authority, making the audience more likely to trust them. Pathos appeals to the emotions, trying to make the audience feel angry or sympathetic
"In a controversial decision, the Supreme Court, by the closest possible margin of a 5-to-4 vote, held that a person has a right to express disagreement with governmental policies by burning the American flag. In a decision at least as controversial, the leadership of the People`s Republic of China decided that citizens who peacefully express disagreement with government policies may be slaughtered. On the surface, these two events may seem to bear little relationship to one another, but deep and fundamental lessons can be drawn from their comparison." With the use of the word "slaughtered" we can see that the author is appealing to the emotional side of the audience or Pathos.
"Any messages that burning the flag might convey easily can be communicated in other ways. Those are powerful points, deserving the greatest respect. If not rebutted, they compel the conclusion that the Supreme Court was wrong in its decision." This section is appealing to the audiences reason by saying that there are other ways to put your message out there without burning the flag.
"The dissenters in the flag-burning case and their supporters might at this juncture note an irony in my argument. My point is that freedom of conscience and expression is at the core of our self-conception and that commitment to it requires the rejection of official dogma. But how is that admittedly dogmatic belief different from any other dogma, such as the one inferring that freedom of expression stops at the border of the flag?" Finally, here Allen is expressing his knowledge and how HE is smarter than the average, adding credit to his image, ethos.
In the entirety of the article he uses rhetorical questions to further his points as well as irony, symbolism, and metaphors.