In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Lord Shamash urges Gilgamesh to attack Humbaba because Shamash strongly feels that Gilgamesh possesses the ability to defeat Humbaba in battle. Lord Shamash despises Humbaba and manipulates Gilgamesh into killing him. Gilgamesh wants to kill Humbaba in order to prove his bravery and fighting prowess. Lord Shamash, in turn, plays upon Gilgamesh's ego in order to force him into killing his arch enemy.
The speech President Kennedy's Report to the American People uses logos, ethos, and pathos, which are:
forms of persuasion first presented by Aristotle.
Ethos is an appeal to ethics. Its efficacy depends directly on the credibility of the speaker. The listener will tend to trust this sort of argument when it's given by a specialist on the subject or, at least, some sort of role model.
Pathos, on the other hand, is an emotional argument. It targets shared feelings and cultural values with the goal of having the listener relate to what is being said.
Logos is a logical argument. Its credibility relies on structure and evidence, as well as coherence. The speaker must be able to walk the listener through the logical path to the conclusion they must reach.
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<span>The sentence in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich that suggests that Ivan Ilyich and his wife couldn’t even agree on how to raise their children is the penultimate one - </span><span>Ivan Ilyich wanted to put him in the School of Law, but to spite him Praskovya Fedorovna entered him at the High School.
It shows that they disagreed on where their children should be educated.
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