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Rhetorical Appeals Ethos Pathos Logos Worksheet, Exercises of Technical Writing

Aristotle introduced rhetorical appeals in three categories, ethos, pathos and logos. This exercise on rhetorical appeals asks to identify each in questions

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ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS
Read each passage and determine if the argument is using Ethos, Pathos, or Logos.
1. When I am the nominee, I will offer a clear choice. John McCain won't be able to say that I ever
supported this war in Iraq, because I opposed it from the beginning. Senator McCain said the other day
that we might be mired for a hundred years in Iraq, which is reason enough to not give him four years in
the White House.
If we had chosen a different path, the right path, we could have finished the job$in$Afghanistan, and put
more resources into the fight against bin Laden; and instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars in
Baghdad, we could have put that money into our schools and hospitals, our road and bridges and that's
what the American people need us to do right now.
Barack Obama Potomac Primary Night Speech February 12, 2008
Method: ___________________________
Why:
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2. Apple has come down from $363 in February to $316 Monday. Furthermore, that masks the fact that
the company is sitting on a ton of net cash. At the end of the last quarter, cash, securities and other liquid
assets exceeded liabilities by $51 billion, or around $55 a share. This may top $60 by the end of this
quarter.
So the cash-free stock price the enterprise value of the business may only be around $260.
That’s barely 10 times forecast earnings of $25 for the fiscal year ending in September. It’s just nine times
next year’s forecast earnings. And it’s only around 2.3 times this year’s sales.
Brett Arrends "Is Apple Becoming a Value Stock." on Marketwatch.com June 21st 2011
Method: ___________________________
Why:
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ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS

Read each passage and determine if the argument is using Ethos, Pathos, or Logos.

1. When I am the nominee, I will offer a clear choice. John McCain won't be able to say that I ever

supported this war in Iraq, because I opposed it from the beginning. Senator McCain said the other day that we might be mired for a hundred years in Iraq, which is reason enough to not give him four years in the White House.

If we had chosen a different path, the right path, we could have finished the job in Afghanistan, and put

more resources into the fight against bin Laden; and instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Baghdad, we could have put that money into our schools and hospitals, our road and bridges – and that's what the American people need us to do right now. **Barack Obama Potomac Primary Night Speech February 12, 2008 Method: ___________________________ Why:





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2. Apple has come down from $363 in February to $316 Monday. Furthermore, that masks the fact that

the company is sitting on a ton of net cash. At the end of the last quarter, cash, securities and other liquid assets exceeded liabilities by $51 billion, or around $55 a share. This may top $60 by the end of this quarter. So the cash-free stock price — the enterprise value of the business— may only be around $260. That’s barely 10 times forecast earnings of $25 for the fiscal year ending in September. It’s just nine times next year’s forecast earnings. And it’s only around 2.3 times this year’s sales. **Brett Arrends "Is Apple Becoming a Value Stock." on Marketwatch.com June 21st 2011 Method: ___________________________ Why:




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3. Kimberly N. had a senior position at a charitable organization when her son was born. She planned for a six-week maternity leave, but her son was born with a life-threatening condition, and she ended up taking 12 weeks with partial pay. Kimberly’s supervisor was unhappy that she took such a long leave and refused to let her work part-time or from home. After going back to work, Kimberly had a terrible performance evaluation that contrasted sharply with her previous positive evaluations. She soon left her job, which significantly impacted family finances. Savings quickly dwindled, debts grew, and Kimberly filed

for bankruptcy. A few months later, she found a part-time job at a lower level with no benefits but was

laid off when the recession hit. She worries that future employers will question her period of unemployment. An Argument for Parental Leave in the United States, written by: Walsch , Janet. Failing It's Families **New York City, NY: Human Rights Watch, 2011 Online Method: ___________________________ Why:





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4. "I have pledged myself and my colleagues in the cabinet to a continuous encouragement of initiative, responsibility and energy in serving the public interest. Let every public servant know, whether his post is high or low, that a man's rank and reputation in this Administration will be determined by the size of the job he does, and not by the size of his staff, his office or his budget. Let it be clear that this Administration

recognizes the value of dissent and daring -- that we greet healthy controversy as the hallmark of healthy

change. Let the public service be a proud and lively career. And let every man and woman who works in any area of our national government, in any branch, at any level, be able to say with pride and with honor in future years: 'I served the United States Government in that hour of our nation's need.'" **John F. Kennedy State of the Union Message, January 30, 1961 Method: ___________________________ Why:




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7. This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work. This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he

felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.

We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes. **Barack Obama Night Before the Election Speech Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia November 3, 2008 Method: ___________________________ Why:






8.** The little crowd of mourners-all men and boys, no women — threaded their way across the market- place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and over again. What really appeals to the flies is that the corpses here are never put into coffins, they are merely wrapped in a piece of rag and carried on a rough wooden bier on the shoulders of four friends. When the friends get to the burying-ground they hack an oblong hole a foot or two deep, dump the body in it and fling over it a little of the dried-up, lumpy earth, which is like broken brick. No gravestone, no name, no identifying mark of any kind. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. After a month or two no one can even be certain where his own relatives are buried. When you walk through a town like this — two hundred thousand inhabitants, of whom at least twenty thousand own literally nothing except the rags they stand up in — when you see how the people live, and still more how easily they die, it is always difficult to believe that you are walking among human beings. **George Orwell "Marakesh" 1939 Method: ___________________________ Why:




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