Hi. Can someone help me tell whether it is ethos, pathos, or logos? BTW none are repeated (it’s one for each). And explain why a
s well, becuase im stuck in these. 1. The white colonists chopped down the tropical forests to enlarge their fields; the cotton plants exhausted the soil; winds unbroken by a forest shield covered the fields with sand.
2. When Columbus first saw the island he described it as “very big and very level and the trees very green...the whole of it so green that it is a pleasure to gaze upon.”
3. The Europeans who followed him there destroyed its vegetation and its inhabitants—human, animal, bird, and fish—and after turning it into a wasteland, they abandoned it
Ethos is about establishing your authority to speak on the subject, logos is your logical argument for your point and pathos is your attempt to sway an audience emotionally.
