ENGL 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pathos

• School: Memorial University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1110
• Professor: Lucinda Austin- Bearns

Document Summary

The tone of your writing needs to be appropriate to the subject matter and the audience. If not your writing will not be well-received. Can be seen in: diction, figurative language, allusions, sentence structure. Style spectrum: prosaic vs. poetic, objective vs. Biased: external vs. internal, simple vs. complex, straightforward vs. rhetorical. (cid:862) he"s got a (cid:271)u(cid:374) i(cid:374) the o(cid:448)e(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:862)this (cid:272)ozy, rural ho(cid:373)e has great old-world character and offers fantastic opportunities for the hands-on i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:863) A fact is raw data + interpretation. Bei(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:373)ore self-(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:863) a(cid:271)out ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)ate. Using rhetoric to interpret the word for ourselves. Making the best choices for us our lives and our purposes: university, car. Using rhetoric to interpret the world or ourselves for others. Making the best choices for our purposes and our audience: life clothes, hair, names, writing words how and why we use them. Three parts working together as one: ethos. (cid:862)the perso(cid:374) (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g the argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t should ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) ethi(cid:272)al (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ter.