Three Modes of Persuasion

 

The Three Modes of Persuasion of Rhetoric

 

When writing rhetoric or discourse you will need to use 3 modes of persuasion commonly known as logos (reason or logic), pathos (compassion or reason) and ethos (credibility or believability)

 

I have chosen the subject of money to define these modes. Money or access or lack of it defines our way of everyday existence. The more you have or have access to it the easier it is to maintain a "middle class living". To be able to obtain shelter, electricity, transportation, fuel and food in order to sustain a comfortable existence. This is logical (logos).

 

Sadly hundreds of thousands of US Citizens have no money and are considered homeless. They live on the streets, scourging for food hoping to find a tidbit to eat, with no heat, shelter or food or clothing. Thousands of these are children whom have never known any other way of life. They've never been able to have enough to eat, or a warm bed at night or watch a "favorite television show". Small things that most of us take for granted. (This defines pathos.)

 

The US Department of Housing and Urban development estimates that there are 633,782 people in the US alone in a state of homelessness and the national debt is now estimated at more than 16 trillion dollars. (ethos)

 

Our world, our lives, our money defines us as a people, as a nation, our mere existence.

 

               These three modes of persuasion are important to writing in communicating to your audience. To create an interest and present them with logic to appeal to their emotions and morals and to be able to state facts to the subject.