https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr How Douglass uses ethos, pathos, and logos en-us 2020-03-02 20:02:28 UTC 2025-03-19 00:50:31 UTC hello@padlet.com 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/453240839 2020-03-02 20:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/453240839 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/453911145 Ethos is the credibility of an author or writer. It is used in writing to show readers that they can trust the author's work. Through ethos writers express their experience, building not only the credibility of themselves but also their claims.  ]]> 2020-03-03 19:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/453911145 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/453911580 Logos is the logic and reasoning used in writing. Through facts and analysis writers persuade readers to their claim. 
Writers use logos as evidence to their assertion. Logos is connecting logically with the readers.]]> 2020-03-03 19:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/453911580 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/453915198 2020-03-03 19:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/453915198 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456006739 Douglass' main use of ethos is when he describes his encounters as a slave. Describing circumstances in first person shows that because he experienced being a slave Douglass is qualified to write about slavery. Douglass 
writes about many 
experiences as a slave and about the institution of slavery:
 "I have been frequently asked, when a slave, if I had a kind master, and do not 
remember ever to 
have given a negative answer" (Douglass 11). ]]> 2020-03-06 19:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456006739 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456024336 Douglass uses pathos in many ways throughout his Narrative. His use of pathos subjects readers to the emotional weight of being a slave. An emotional sentiment Douglass describes is the songs of slaves. He explains how these songs "told a tale of woe... they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish"(Douglass 8).   ]]> 2020-03-06 20:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456024336 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456024687 Douglass' use of logos is skillful, and appears periodically throughout his narrative. He uses logos to dissuade claims that were used to justify slavery. His logic displays the wrongness of slavery in a way that even the most brutal slave owners cannot deny. One of these logical displays is Douglass' description of God cursing Ham; "thousands are ushered into the world, annually, who, like myself, owe their existence to white fathers, and those fathers most frequently their own masters"(Douglass 3).  ]]> 2020-03-06 20:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456024687 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456025433 2020-03-06 20:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456025433 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456025547 In chapter three Douglass describes how slaves do not address their masters in a negative way because it 
could lead to repercussions 
of a whipping or being sent 
to a worst farm. This shows Douglass' credibility to write about slavery because only a slave would know not to 
speak unwell of their master. 
His first person experiences 
give him the qualifications to 
write about slavery.  ]]> 2020-03-06 20:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/456025547 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/466781970 Pathos is any emotion used in writing.  It is used to persuade a reader through heartfelt words and  passionate exemplifications. Writers use pathos to make readers connect with their claim on a deeper level. ]]> 2020-03-19 18:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/466781970 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/468273304 In chapter two Douglass describes the slave songs and their meaning to slaves. Many people believed that because slaves were singing that meant that they were happy and content with their life, but Douglass illustrates that this is not the case. He recounts these songs as woes of slavery and anguish within their lives. Douglass uses these powerful words to demonstrate the emotions slaves had towards slavery. ]]> 2020-03-20 17:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/468273304 3327721 https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/468332245 In chapter one Douglass describes that one of the justifications of slavery is the bible story of god and ham. The story says that god cursed ham, a dark skinned man, and all of his descends into slavery.  For many years people used this story to defend slavery saying the the bible said it was just. Douglass flips this around by explicating that most slaves' fathers were their white masters. Therefor they are not children of ham and should not be enslaved. ]]> 2020-03-20 18:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3327721/sivjzy2gc9yr/wish/468332245