Using Logos, Pathos, & Ethos

When dealing with Logos, Pathos, and Ethos; you are inviting your audience to go on a journey with you.  For an example, if you were giving a speech on speaking out against suicide, your audience would want to know how you are linked to this issue. You would then explain to the audience how you felt at the moment you were told that your father had committed suicide.  This would be pathos because the audience will feel your despair.  You would continue with how as a young adult with younger siblings, you dealt with this tragedy. By letting the audiences relate to your story, you receive creditability; ethos. To give facts or concrete information, you could show them the death certificate or the newspaper report.

 

Using Logos, Pathos, and Ethos in your writing can be very beneficial to both the writer and the audience.  Literature containing logos, pathos, and ethos, not only allows you to express your emotions about the topic but also lets your audience agree and engage with you or disagree and ask questions on the topic.