Ethos Pathos Logos Literary Definition. Ethos pathos and logos are modes of persuasion used to convince and appeal to an audience. Pathos elicits emotions in the audience.
Also called the logical appeal logos examples in advertisment include the citation of statistics facts data charts and graphs. Ethos is about establishing your authority to speak on the subject logos is your logical argument for your point and pathos is your attempt to sway an audience emotionally. As you know a paradox is a statement that appears to contradict itself but actually makes a lot of sense.
Yesterday you had to describe the meanings of the following two paradoxes.
Pathos is an appeal to emotion. As you know a paradox is a statement that appears to contradict itself but actually makes a lot of sense. Ethos Pathos and Logos are modes of persuasion used to convince audiences. Leith has a great example for summarizing what the three look like.