... an argument, but Aristotle divided the art of persuasion into three categories: ethos pathos and logos. Ethos is the source's credibility, pathos is the emotional or motivation appeals and logos is the logic used to support the claim. These three elements are used when Calpurnia and Decius are trying to win an argument on whether Caesar should go to the senate or not, but in the end Decius wins and ... argument, while Calpurnia barely used it at all. Both Calpurnia and Decius use ethos to help their arguments. Calpurnia is the wife of Caesar, and therefore Caesar greatly respects her. T...

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... be seen as someone who only has one opinion and therefore cannot understand the feelings of others not in his situation. Structure is only one of the elements that make a good persuasive argument. The author must also use Aristotle's three primary tactics of argument: appeals to the emotions and deepest held values of the audience (pathos), appeals based on the trustworthiness of the speaker (ethos), and appeals to good reasons (logos) (Faigley and Selzer ... will we be (King par. 26)." And finally a look at the logos used in the essay Letter from Birmingham Jail. King uses this to show...

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