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Elizabeth And Fredrick Use Of Ethos Pathos Logos

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‘Various way Elizabeth and Fredrick use pathos. Discuss’ In Aristotle’s book of collected lectures titled ‘Rhetoric’, Aristotle declares that there are three different ways to persuade a reader. The first way is to appeal to an audience by logical facts or logos. The second way is to appeal to a reader by using mortality or ethos into the writing. Lastly, Aristotle claims that you need emotion or ethos to persuade an audience. In Elizabeth I’s Speech to the troops at Tillbury and Frederick Douglass the Church and Prejudice: Both apply pathos in their speeches in order to gather their supporters behind them. Elizabeth I’s speech highlights multiple emotions, primarily confidence and courage. This is immediately known in the middle of her speech, where she uses pathos to gain her audiences …show more content…

Even though multiple individuals believed that she was ‘illegitimate by many Europeans’ (Colvin). Although the Europeans did not feel she was illegitimate: Elizabeth uses pathos to gain her followers trust and trail behind her into war. Elizabeth also uses pathos in her speech to encourage her troops to gather as one as she will be the one to reward, judge and be their general as someone invades their borders. Frederick Douglass also used pathos in his speech to persuade the audience in his favor, similarly to Elizabeth, though Frederick touched upon his prejudice and inequality between blacks and

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