The Rhetorical Triangle: Speeches

Logos: The appeal to reason

Ethos: The persuasive appeal of one’s character

Pathos: The appeal to emotion

Grabs people’s emotions by manipulating listeners with a combination of concrete information and emotive examples, or phraseology.
Appeals to negative emotions (fear, discrimination, revenge)
Appeals to positive emotions (love, charity, brotherhood, justice)
Use of figurative speech (metaphors, rhetorical questions, parallelism)

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	Created by Hunter Lynch over 11 years ago

Secondary Advanced English (Module B: Speeches) Note on Module B: Speeches (The Rhetorical Triangle), created by Hunter Lynch on 26/06/2014.