English Scholarship Pathways Workshop

 Throughout the day, a group of students and I spent an hour with different English teachers and looked at different parts of literature. The topics we looked at are Narrative Theory, Rhetorical Theory, Philosophy, and Shakespeare. 

All of the topics that we looked at had amazing and interesting points that made me think or rethink what certain words really meant. Though all topics had interesting subjects; my personal favorite was Philosophy. During the topic, we discussed and played around with asking 'Why?' to statements and we were to ask as such until the other person can't think of an answer. I really enjoyed this because it made me think about many answers to a simple question. Doing this made me wonder how much I really knew.

Today was very interesting because all the workshops had different and interesting information to tell me. The workshop also showed me different perspectives of simple or 'logical' situations or circumstances.   

1.5 Persuasive Writing: Pathos, Logos and Ethos

Pathos, also known as the appeal to emotion, persuades the audience by evoking emotions that the author or creator uses to make the audience feel what they want them to feel. In literature, Pathos is used to set the mood or tone to make the audience feel a certain way towards different characters. Authors are known to use pathos to evoke sympathy from the audience; a common pathos used by creators is to draw pity from the audience. An example of Pathos is "You will never be satisfied in life if you don't seize this opportunity. Do you want to live the rest of your years yearning to know what would have happened if you just jumped when you had the chance?"

Logos, the appeal to logic, persuades the audience with logic, reason, facts, and figures. A creator uses logos by making logical and clear connections between ideas, showing reasonable thinking, and using facts and figures in their work. Logos is rational and logical arguments to show a point of view. Logos is found in literature when characters argue to try to convince one another of their point of view. An example of logos is from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird "It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant."

Ethos,