Climate Change Metaphors

Pathos is generally known as the emotion and imagination of a writing piece. With the author’s tone, it leads to causing a reaction from the audience. It causes the audience to think ahead and they either agree or disagree. Some stronger than others of course. The part of the writing that results in emotions is the very last paragraph.

Another example of pathos I found is where the author is talking about people essentially talking back to each other. " 'Why are you telling me how to do my job?' I asked. ' It's not like I show up in your kitchen and tell you when to bake cookies'" (Klosterman 94). This definitely isn't as great as the last example but Chuck is using emotional appeal to help the readers understand how it feels to have someone tell you how to do/do your job.

One example of Pathos in, “Fall Forward” is, “Every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed”. When Denzel says this he is inspiring the audience to succeed by having hope in them. This also causes the graduating college students to have hope and faith in themselves. Another example is, “How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?” This could be used to encourage these college graduates to do whatever they can to accomplish their goals, so they don’t have any regrets in life when their time comes.

It shows countless examples of pathos throughout the letter from Birmingham jail, one example being: “We began a series of workshops on nonviolence, and we repeatedly asked ourselves:”Are you able to accept blows without retailing?”(King 273) in the sentence his use of pathos fits the category for pathos. Pity or tragedy are examples of pathos when a character expresses some type of

For example Bush says, “Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror” to show the sadness and emotion in the situation. This is an example of pathos because it is showing shock causing sadness, when the audience hears this part they feel sad and care more from imagining what happened or what they saw. This makes people around the world want to help more because they feel bad for people injured or families that have lost loved

This is an example of pathos because he used the fact that Boss was crying because of his dead friend to evoke emotion from

Pathos emotionally connects with the reader. Outliers shows many examples, one would be the story of 12-year-old Marita living in a one-bedroom apartment with her mom. To reach her success “I wake up at five-forty-five a.m. to get a head start, I brush my teeth, shower. I get some breakfast at school, if I am running late…” (Gladwell, 264).

I’m not thinking the way I used I think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading.” (Carr 557). This is an effective use of pathos because it draws the reader to question whether or not their way of thinking is changing as well. Carr is trying to create this connection, so the audience feels exactly what he is feeling and is successful at doing so.

The father, who was once straightlaced and hardworking, but had now turned into a drunk, and only two of the eleven children had any hope in life. She uses this as an example of what overpopulation can do to a family and the importance of birth control. This quote, displaying the lives of torn families, is an example of Pathos. Pathos is illustrated in this quote through the sadness and disparity that the people in the stories face and the dark future that they have.

Another example of pathos is when Eliezer says, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep” after his father had died in the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp (Wiesel 112). This is an example of pathos because it expresses the severity of Eliezer’s sadness that he could not even cry. The appeal to emotion causes this to be an example of pathos. There are various occasions in the novel when the author uses logos. The author uses logos when he states a

Pathos is a rhetorical device used for providing emotion to the reader. He wants the reader to feel sympathetic towards the mistreatment of African-Americans. In the introduction, the first rhetorical device he introduced is pathos. Coates present pathos when he introduced Clyde Ross. He titles the first chapter as, “So that’s just one of my losses”.

For example, Mr.Gilmer uses Pathos when making Mayella explain what happened on the supposed day Tom abused and took advantage of her, the reasoning is that in the book it says “Mayella stared at him and burst into tears. She cover her mouth with her hands and sobbed. ”lee241 When this scene happened Mr.Gilmer was questioning Mayella. This showed a negative holistically in the argument; Pathos was strengthened because of the reason it appealed the audience emotion making them feel bad for her, this helped the argument because the audience felt emotion when Mayella was crying this might cause an unbiased audience to feel and think that Tom could possibly be guilty. Also, Mr.Gilmer used Ethos appealing to the audiences good morals for this reason

His use of Pathos in the speech was a key part of gaining an emotional response from the audience by making them feel for

Pathos is when the speech appeals to the audience’s emotions. President Abraham Lincoln uses pathos is this speech to console the audience for the losses that the country has endured during the Civil War. Lincoln uses pathos to convey sadness when he says, “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.” When saying this Lincoln appeals to the people’s emotions by explaining that their loved ones struggled there and he also appeals to the feeling of pride they feel for their loved ones who dedicated their lives to their cause. Another example of pathos in this speech is, “...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain…”

In the Documentary Before the Flood, Leonardo Dicaprio travels around the world to meet with scientists, activists, and world leaders who inform us about climate change and how it affects our environment. Rhetorical devices are used throughout the documentary such as pathos, logos, and ethos which all are effective and help make claims that are efficiently supported and understood. The rhetorical device of ethos is widely supported throughout the documentary due to the use of scientists, politicians, government companies, and activists who all have credibility and a title that is highly looked up to. Gregory Mankiw is a professor at Harvard and teaches economics.