Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in Action & Figures of Style IEthos: An Example Churchill Before US Congress December 1941Emile Zola’s Defense SpeechEthos: John McCain’s Acceptance SpeechPathos – 2004 “Wolves” Bush AdSatire of 2004 “Wolves” Bush AdNixon’s Checkers SpeechPathos, Logos, & Ethos in Nixon’s Checkers SpeechObama: A More Perfect UnionCompare Nixon’s Use of Ethos, Pathos, to Obama’sRhetorical Figures of Style IAnaphoraAnaphora ExampleAnaphora ExampleAnaphora ExampleAnaphora ExampleAnaphora ExampleAntistropheAntistrophe ExampleAntistrophe ExampleAntistrophe ExampleSymploce Symploce ExampleSymploce ExampleSymploce ExampleEthos, Pathos, and Logos in Action &Figures of Style IClass 421W.747 Sec 1Les PerelmanFigures removed due to copyright restrictions.Ethos: An Example Churchill Before US Congress December 1941By the way, I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way round, I might have got here on my own. In that case, this would not have been the first time you would have heard my voice. In that case I should not have needed any invitation, but if I had, it is hardly likely it would have been unanimous. So perhaps things are better as they are.Emile Zola’s Defense SpeechEthos: John McCain’s Acceptance SpeechPathos – 2004 “Wolves” Bush Ad• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU4t9O_yFsYSatire of 2004 “Wolves” Bush Ad• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjgOKx‐Qq1I&feature=relatedNixon’s Checkers Speech• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4UEv_jjPL0• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhQD2UFCIbYPathos, Logos, & Ethos in Nixon’s Checkers Speech• Pathos• Ethos• LogosObama: A More Perfect Unionhttp://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=zrp ‐v2tHaDoCompare Nixon’s Use of Ethos, Pathos, to Obama’s• Group 1 – Ethos• Group 2 – Pathos• Group 3 ‐‐ LogosRhetorical Figures of Style Ihttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htmAdapted from American RhetoricAnaphora• Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines.Anaphora Example• "Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night,theJapanese attacked Wake Island. And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island." – Franklin Delano RooseveltAnaphora Example• We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fightwith growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defendour Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fighton the beaches, we shall fighton the landing grounds, we shall fightin the fields and in the streets, we shall fightin the hills; we shall never surrender.– Sir Winston ChurchillAnaphora Example"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."Barbara JordanAnaphora Example• "I am going to discuss this war in which we've been engaged for a hundred and five years; the war declared by Karl Marx in 1848, re‐declaredand brought down to date by Lenin, againre‐declared by Stalin, and again re‐declared by the Kremlin within the last five or six weeks“‐‐Senator Joe McCarthyAnaphora Example• What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is notviolence and lawlessness; but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country whether they be white or whether they be black. – Sen. Robert F. KennedyAntistrophe•Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words.Antistrophe Example• "I said you're afraid to bleed. [As] long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls be[ing] murdered, you haven't got no blood."Malcolm XAntistrophe Example• “The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.”– Nelson Mandela, Inaugural AddressAntistrophe Example• "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the peopleshall not perish from the earth." –Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address(here delivered by Jeff Daniels)Symploce• The combination of anaphora and antistrophe: beginning a series of lines, clauses, or sentences with the same word or phrase while simultaneously repeating a different word or phrase at the end of each element in this seriesSymploce Example• "Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it is hate, but it's the truth." – Malcolm XSymploce Example• “My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who sawwrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”Sen. Edward KennedySymploce Example"We remember today that all our gentle heroes of Vietnam have given us a lesson in something more: a lesson in living love ‐‐ their lovefor their families lives; their love for their buddies on the battlefields and friends back home lives; their love of their country lives."‐Ronald ReaganMIT OpenCourseWarehttp://ocw.mit.edu 21W.747 Classical Rhetoric and Modern Political DiscourseFall 2009For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: