Day Twenty-Six / 10.13.10

Today we started with a quote from John Cleese: “If I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.” We took a Vocabulary Quiz on -Un words. We read silently. We worked on our Persuasive Thesis Argument Statements. Then we talked about Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Here's the short version on those three:

Ethos: the source's credibility, the speaker's/author's authority

Pathos: the emotional or motivational appeals; vivid language, emotional language and numerous sensory details.

Logos: the logic used to support a claim (induction and deduction); can also be the facts and statistics used to help support the argument.

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