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Ethos, Logos, Pathos Paper Analysis Criteria Sheet

In this essay you will be required to select a speech that addresses a civil rights issue in some capacity. You may select any speech from any historical period as long as it connects to an issue of civil rights. You may use the actual speech by the leader/orator you have chosen for your Oral Project. For the essay you need to accomplish the following:

1. Provide a background about the rhetorical exigence of the speech. In other words, why was it necessary and pertinent for the times? Where was it given and why?

2. Define and discuss the ethos or credibility of the person delivering the discourse. How did her or his contemporaries see the person and her or his work? Make sure you provide a brief explanation of what ethos is and define some of its traits and characteristics. Then apply what you have learned to the speaker you have selected. Keep in mind you are allowed to discuss negative credibility items as well. If you notice items within the speech that contribute to the speaker's credibility profile, you may write about this as well.

3. Define and discuss how the speaker uses pathos within the speech. What parts are designed to elicit an emotional response from the audience, and how did they accomplish this? Please make sure to define and explain what pathos is and describe some of the ways the speaker created emotion in the speech. What emotions did the speaker try to access in the minds of his or her audience?

4. Define and discuss how the speaker uses logos in the presentation (evidence and reasoning). Please make sure you define and explain what logos is and the importance of it in a speech. Then identify one or two strategies you feel are the most significant in the speech.

5. In addition to defining the terms and discussing Ethos, Logos, Pathos, analyze the speech/orator for his/her Rhetorical Skills such as alliteration, assonance, antithesis, similes and metaphors, kinds of Repetitions. See Unit #234 Viewings and hard copy of Bb Viewings lecture below.

6. Please make sure you provide a copy of the speech as part of your paper or a link to indicate where you found this.

7. For this assignment you will need a minimum of five different sources. The actual speech or text does not count as a source. Use these sources to define and explain the concepts of ethos, logos, or pathos. You may also use these to augment your section on the speech and the speaker's background.

8. This assignment is 4-5 pages in length. It should be double spaced and typed using Times New Roman font. The Works Cited page does not count as part of the page count.

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