Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 12 AIL 1110 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Telling the Appeals Apart
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The idea
Ask what the sentence offers as its reason to believe. If it is who the speaker is, that is ethos. If it is how the reader should feel, pathos. If it is a fact, a figure or a logical step, logos. One question, three outcomes.
In practice
What reason to believe is offered.
Where people slip
One question sorts all three.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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