Aristotle Usefulness

There are various modes of persuasion, but not all of them belong to the art of Rhetoric from Aristotle’s perspective. Of those that do belong to the art of rhetoric, Aristotle proposes three elements or divisions the speaker must bring to the rhetorical argument: ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos has to do with the ability of the speaker to bring credibility to his speech. Pathos is the ability of the speaker to set the emotional tone of his audience. Logos represents the degree of truth the speaker is able to lend to his argument through proof “Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the speaker, the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind, the third on the proof, or apparent proof, provided by the words of the speech itself” (Bizzell 153).

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