What is pathos? Provide an example of an appeal using pathos

What will be an ideal response?


Pathos is the rhetorical use of emotions to affect audience decision making. I might use pathos to persuade by showing pictures of smoker and non-smoker's lungs, with the smoker's lungs being black and unhealthy to create a feeling of fear or disgust in audience members to get them not to smoke.

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When you want to reinforce, change, or influence the

attitudes, beliefs, or actions of the audience, your general purpose is to _________. Fill in the blanks with correct word

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What is wrong with the straw-man approach to writing leads?

What will be an ideal response?

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Keith forms an impression about his new roommate based on the information gathered by searching the Internet. In the context of Chuck Berger's strategies for seeking information, Keith is most likely using a(n) ________.

A) passive strategy B) extractive strategy C) interactive strategy D) active strategy

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According to Daniel Menakar, conversation is a human art of great importance produced by all people everywhere

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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