This week is about appeals and rhetorical strategies. Answer the following questions about your artifact:
How is your rhetor building their credibility? Are they showing (or borrowing) expertise and/or demonstrating good character? (Provide between 1-4 examples)
How are they showing (or borrowing) expertise and/or demonstrating good character? Provide textual evidence.
3. How is your rhetor employing pathos appeals? If they are not, discuss why instead of answering questions 4 and 5.
4. What emotions are they eliciting?
5. How are they eliciting those emotions? (Provide as many examples as you can and be as specific as possible.)
6. How is your rhetor employing logos appeals? (please describe at least 2-3 examples)
7. For each example, show the premises (stated or unstated) and conclusion.
8. Are they using any rhetorical strategies (comparison, exemplification, etc.)
9. Which appeal is strongest? Why?
10. For each appeal, how are the appeals moving the audience closer to the rhetorical goal?
Please answer the following questions about Boyega's Speech:
Who was in Boyega's audience? Describe their values?
Pathos: What emotions was Boyega trying to elicit in the audience? What strategies was he employing to elicit those emotions?
Ethos: How was Boyega building his ethos?
Logos: what logos appeals did Boyega employ? Describe the premises and conclusions.