Jaxon Mase, October 3, 2016

Today in Mr. Rivers period 8 class, we discussed the difference in Rhetoric and Literature. we had also talked about it Friday and what the main difference that we found is that Rhetoric is Argumentative. Its used to persuay someone about a set topic like a commercial for a kids toy. Literature is more story telling rather than argumentative. An example of this is Romeo and Juliet. We then discussed Analyzing and how it must main Objective (unbiased). Our Goals set were "understand how to structure a rhetoric analysis. Evaluate how a test accomplishes its purpose." To achieve these IWBATs We looked at Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. Three different appeals used in Rhetoric writing. Ethos is an appeal to credibility, Logos is an appeal to logic, and Pathos is an appeal to emotions. Aristotle thought Pathos to be the most persuasive. To apply our knowledge of the three appeals we evaluated "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", Highlighting our designated appeal assigned by Mr. Rivers. My group had Logos and personally, it was very difficult to find any appeal to facts or logic. I did end up finding little glimpse of logic even though it felt as if the whole article is the rambling of an insane asylum occupant. The most prominate appeal in this article was Pathos. Jonathan Edwards used fear and pain to scare his audience into applying his teachings.

An Example of how Pathos can easily persuade us into doing or believing in something.