Ethos has to be the most important form of rhetoric. If the writer is educated and an expert about what he/she is writing then all of their arguments are backed up. You are not going to question points basketball coach makes about basketball. Pathos and Logos are not effective if the the Ethos is not mentioned.
Krakauer in Into the Wild likes to use a lot logos in his writing. Into the Wild is driven by fact and information about Chris. The Logos drives the the Pathos because when you read about the facts is drives you emotion. Krakauer effectively uses all of the forms of rhetoric very well. All good writers have to use these sufficiently in order to be a good writer though.
You hit it perfectly for my opinion. I also believe Ethos plays the biggest factor towards how someone views an author. Your credibility has a lot to do with how trustworthy your writing is. I think Krakauer does a great job on hitting all aspects of the forms of rhetoric but agree that he used logos the best
ReplyDeleteI actually disagreed with you on this one. I thought that Krakauer stressed Pathos more than anything, using Logos to drive the Pathos. I'm not sure what I feel on the Ethos/Logos argument either, I choose Logos, but I can see your point as well.
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