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DONOVAN BROWN

The Art of Rhetoric: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos - 0 views

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    How to Use Aristotle's Three Main Rhetorical Styles Rhetoric (n) - the art of speaking or writing effectively. ( Webster's Definition) According to Aristotle, rhetoric is: "the ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion." He described three main forms of rhetoric: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.
Lara Cowell

How Stories Deceive - The New Yorker - 0 views

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    Narratives powerfully persuade humans; pathos can outweigh logos to create believability.
Lisa Stewart

Language Log » Univocal heteroglossia - 1 views

  • I don't think that the Greek rhetoricians had a word for the juxtaposition of disparate styles represented by passages like "not only are you violating the First Amendment, you also come across as a narcissistic fromunda stain".
  • Kluwe's status as an athlete provides the ethos, the high style carries the logos, and the trash-talking establishes the pathos.
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    "For the past three years, Brendon Ayanbadejo, a backup linebacker and standout special-teams player for the [Baltimore] Ravens, has been advocating for same-sex marriage-writing about it, talking about it, appearing as one of the stars of a video campaign launched by backers of a measure to legalize it in Maryland. It's not his day job, but he's gotten enough attention for it that an anti-gay-marriage Maryland state legislator wrote to the owner of the Ravens and demanded that he shut Ayanbadejo up."
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