Question

Directions: Identify five examples of the use of logos, ethos, and pathos in the speech. First, cite

specific lines from the speech. Then, indicate whether the lines are an example of logos, ethos, or

pathos. Finally, explain your choice as well as the impact the lines are intended to have on the

audience. One example has been completed for you.

6.02 English Seg 2

Answer 1

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Directions: Identify five examples of the use of logos, ethos, and pathos in the speech (vivil rights adress). First, cite specific lines from the speech. Then, indicate whether the lines are an example of logos, ethos, or pathos. Finally, explain your choice as well as the impact the lines are intended to have on the audience. One example has been completed for you.

Answer:

"who among us would be content to have the colour of their skin changed and stand in this place? who among us would then be content with the patience and delay." - Logos

"A great change is at hand and it's our task our obligation to make that revolution that changes peacefully and constructive for all. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality." - Pathos

"That they were admitted peacefully on the campus is due in good measure to the conduct of the students of the University of Alabama, who met their responsibilities in a constructive way." - Ethos

" This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened." - Logos

"If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who will represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want" - Logos

Step-by-step explanation:

Logos, pathos and ethos are very important rhetorical resources within a discourse, as they shape the character, the idea and the feeling that the speaker wishes to convey.

The logos is a resource that appeals to logic, the speaker using it when he wants to emphasize concepts and logical situations within the theme he is talking about.

Pathos is a resource that appeals to emotion. In this case, the speaker wants to influence the emotions and sensations that people can develop around the topic.

Ethos is a resource that appeals to ethics, where the speaker reflects ethical concepts addressed within the exposed theme.

Answer 2

1 "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution." This is an example of ethos because Kennedy is working to establish credibility with the audience. He wants the audience to trust in what he is saying. Kennedy lets the audience know that they are facing a battle that has been around for hundreds of years.

2 "Who among us would be content to have the color of their skin changed and stand in this place? who among us would then be content with the patience and delay." This is an example of logos because it is basically giving the audience a rhetorical thought about racism and is allowing the audience to question their own logic and rationality.

3"A great change is at hand and it's our task our obligation to make that revolution that changes peacefully and constructive for all. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality." Kennedy uses pathos here by getting emotion out of the audience and telling them to do something to make a change and telling them that they are the only way that the issue can change. He also tells the audience that it is their job and responsibility to take action and basically pins it on the audience which is an emotional component of pathos because Kennedy is "pursuading" them by using guilt and personal responsibility.

4"If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who will represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want" Kennedy here is using simple logic. A man cannot eat in a restaurant or send his kid to a nice school simply because his skin is dark. He is still a human, an American, the only difference is that his skin is a different color than other Americans. Kennedy says this and uses it more for the audience to think about the issue in the simplest terms. He is straightforward and blunt and this allows the audience to really think about what that means and why they are treating people that way.

5"This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened." Again, Kennedy uses simple logic by stating the constitution, a document that literally founded America and said that all men are equal. He uses facts by using an official document and even quotes it. Simple logic, which gives the audience another opportunity to take a minute and really think about what it means to be an American.

6"The Negro baby born in America today, regardless of the section of the State in which he is born, has about one-half as much chance of completing a high school as a white baby born in the same place on the same day, one-third as much chance of completing college, one-third as much chance of becoming a professional man, twice as much chance of becoming unemployed, about one-seventh as much chance of earning $10,000 a year, a life expectancy which is seven years shorter, and the prospects of earning only half as much." Once again, Kennedy uses straight facts. This time he uses actual numbers to prove his point just a little bit more. He uses logos in the most blunt way by stating facts and opening up the audiences eyes by letting them realize from a credited source that black people do really get treated worse and for no other reason than the color of their skin.