Feb 11 2009
Pick a Rhetorical Appeal
Pathos
It is the appeal that the rhetor uses in an attempt to draw on the audience’s emtions, these emotions include love, hate, pity, sorrow, happiness, and so on.
This video appeals to Pathos greatly, it is Sarah McLachlan’s animal cruelty groups video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gspElv1yvc
In Atwood’s sample narrative an example of Pathos is when the rhetor talks about speaking with Sheree and how teaching writing to women in school was negative, mainly because they were shy or afraid of writing. This appeals to our sympathy emotion.