ethos logos and pathos paper
Ethos, Logos, Pathos Paper Analysis Criteria Sheet Analyze the formal speech given by your Chosen Orator in accord with the following: 1.Provide a background about Bitzer’s rhetorical exigence of the speech. In other words, why was it necessary and pertinent for the times? Where was it given and why? 2.Define and discuss the ethos or credibility of the person delivering the discourse. How did her or his contemporaries see the person and her or his work? Make sure you provide a brief explanation of what ethos is and define some of its traits and characteristics. Apply what you have learned to the speaker you have selected. Keep in mind you are allowed to discuss negative credibility items as well. If you notice items within the speech that contribute to the speaker's credibility profile, you may write about this as well. Define the term, citing researched sources to support your assertions. 3.Define and discuss how the speaker uses pathos within the speech. What parts are designed to elicit an emotional response from the audience, and how did they accomplish this? Please make sure to define and explain what pathos is and describe some of the ways the speaker created emotion in the speech. What emotions did the speaker try to access in the minds of his or her audience? Define the term, citing researched sources to support your assertions. 4.Define and discuss how the speaker uses logos in the presentation (evidence and reasoning). Please make sure you define and explain what logos is and the importance of it in a speech. Then identify strategies you feel are the most significant in the speech. Define the term, citing researched sources to support your assertions.Criteria Sheet - Ethos, Logos, Pathos Analysis Paper 5.In addition to defining the terms and discussing Aristotle’s Artistic Proofs of Ethos, Logos, Pathos, analyze your Orator’s speech for his/her use of Rhetorical Devices such as anaphora, epistrophe, alliteration, assonance, antithesis, similes and metaphors; be specific to the kinds of Repetitions. See definitions page two-three. 6.Please make sure you provide a copy of the speech as part of your paper or a link to indicate where you found this. 7.For this assignment you will need a minimum of five different sources. The actual speech or text does not count as a source. Use these sources to define and explain the concepts of ethos, logos, or pathos. You may also use these to augment your section on the speech and the speaker's background. 8.This assignment is 4-5 pages in length. It should be double spaced/typed using Times New Roman font/12 pitch. The Annotated Bibliography page does not count as part of the page count. Make sure to have a note explaining what you got from each source you cite that you will use in your paper and then be able to re-use for your ORAL PROJECT on The Life and Times of Famous Orator…” 9.As with your formal Discussion Board entries, make certain to define terms, citing researched sources to support your assertions specifically within the text and a full citation at the end of your paper in either MLA or APA format. P.S: Reminder: You may include this investigation in your oral project on The Life and Times of a Famous Civil Rights Leader. Whereas there are a plethora of actual rhetorical devices/terms, below are the required definitions for our course, based on the three short videos by Prof. McGarrity. [See left navigation link for videos] Rhetorical Stylistic Devices formulas for persuasion Integrating style - building it into the speech around your core ideas. Alliteration - repetition of consonant sounds "Happy Home - Healthy Family - Hopeful Future" -- William Clinton "Face the Fire at Freedom's Front." -- Ronald Reagan Assonance - repetition of vowel sound. There was a young fellow named Hall. He fell in the Spring in the Fall. T'would have been a sad thing, if he died in the Spring, But he didn't, he died in the Fall. Asyndeton - Omitting normally occurring conjunctions "Be one of the few, the proud, the marines." Polysyndeton - Insertion of excessive conjunctions "We must change that deleterious environment of the 80s, that environment which and hatred and was characterized by greed and hatred and selfishness and mega-mergers and debt overhang..." --Barbara Jordan Anaphora [uh-NA—fo-ruh] deliberate repetition of the first word or set of words in a sentence or phrase. "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fights on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill "To raise a happy, healthy and hopeful child, it takes a family; it takes teachers; it takes clergy; it takes business people; it takes community leaders; it takes those who protect our health and safety. It takes all of us. -- Hillary Clinton Epistrophe [uh-PI -struh-fee] -- Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive phrases "...and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth." -- Abraham Lincoln "I said you're afraid to bleed. (As) long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls being murdered, you haven't got no blood." (Also antithesis) -- Malcolm X Symploce [sim-ploh-see] - Repetition of the first and last word in a clause over successive clauses "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." -- Edward Kennedy "Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it is hate, but it's the truth." -- Malcolm X Rule of Three pattern - step 1, step 2, step 3 with a change. Grows in terms of value and intensity - escalates the variable. Anadiplosis – [AN-ə-di-PLOH-sis]; Repetition of the last word in one sentence at the beginning of the next sentence. "Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution." --George W. Bush, Address to Congress and the Nation, 2001 Antithesis – [ an-tith-uh-sis ] Pairing of contrasting words or ideas "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, 1933 Antimetabole – [an-tee-met-ab-oh-lee ]A B, B A -- pairing of phrases in one order and then in the reverse order "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. "But we must remember a crucial fact; east and West do not mistrust each other because we are armed; we're armed because we mistrust each other." Appositio - Elaboration and variation of a word - taking a small idea and providing elaborated phrases "John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a great and good President, a friend of all people of goodwill, a believer in the dignity and equality of all human beings, a fighter for justice, an apostle of peace, has been snatched from our midst by the bullet of an assassin." -- Justice Earl Warren, Eulogy for JFK, 1963 Schesis Onomaton – [skee'-sis-ah-no-maw-ton] Elaboration and variation of a phrase - whose meanings are generally equivalent "Every time you break the seal on that liquor bottle, that's a Government's seal you're breaking! Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok! This is what he does." "Denzel Washington as Malcolm X, Malcolm X Movie "Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny." -- Barbara Jordan, 1976 DNC Keynote Address Maxims - Short, pithy phrase that captures the core idea of the speech - a title given after the fact. "This was their finest hour" - Winston Churchill, Speech to Parliament, 1940 "Tear down this wall" - Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987 There are many more Greek Rhetorical terms, but these are the core definitions we will focus on and develop. 4/13/22, 3:27 PM EN274 OL1 Voices Of Civil Rights Spring 2022 https://fitnyc.open.suny.edu/webapps/rubric/do/course/manageRubrics?dispatch=view&context=course&rubricId=_293414_1&course_id=_69043_1 1/4 Formal DBs and Essay Evaluation Rubric - pai Levels of Achievement Criteria The Superior Paper(A/A-) The Good Paper (B+/B) The Borderline Paper (B-/C+) The Needs Help Paper (C/C-) The Really Needs Help Paper (D/F) Thesis 87.00 to 100.00 % Easily identifiable, plausible, novel, sophisticated, insightful, crystal clear. Connects well with paper title. 78.00 to 86.00 % Promising, but may be slightly unclear, or lacking in insight or originality. Paper title does not connect as well with thesis or is not as interesting. 72.00 to 77.00 % May be unclear (contain many vague terms), appear unoriginal, or offer relatively little that is new; provides little around which to structure the paper. Paper title and thesis do not connect well or title is unimaginative. 62.00 to 71.00 % Difficult to identify at all, may be bland restatement of obvious point. 54.00 to 61.00 % Is like The "Needs Help" Paper but the problems are more serious or more frequent. Structure 87.00 to 100.00 % Evident, understandable, appropriate for thesis. Excellent transitions from point to point. Paragraphs support solid topic sentences. 78.00 to 86.00 % Generally clear and appropriate, though may wander occasionally. May have a few unclear transitions, or a few paragraphs without strong topic sentences. 72.00 to 77.00 % Generally unclear, often wanders or jumps around. Few or weak transitions