Rhetorical analysis is your way of persuasion. In other words, how to use your words to convince someone or some people of something. There are three types of appeals: Ethos, Logos, Pathos.

Ethos, which is a Greek word that means ethical appeal; it means credibility. In other words, is that you talk about a specific field where you are considered an expert in it, where you use yourself as the source of your words. In order to be an expert in a field or to be considered an expert, you will have to do a research about the topic and ready some articles about it. Sometimes you can be considered an expert in a field by just working in same field or if you have been in a situation about the same topic. An everyday example of this is the weather man. The weather man is considered an expert in the climate changes, …show more content…
You make your case by using the causes or the reasons; Logic is known facts. Usually people who use logic in their arguments can prove it in two ways: first, if it's a fact then most people should know it, and second is by conducting a research. For instance, using your phone to text or call while driving your car can cause an accident. Almost everyone knows this fact, and it can be proved by showing some statistics.

Pathos is a pathetic appeal. Pathos use people's emotions to convince them or to get their approval or acceptance on the thought expressed. Creating an emotion in an audience even if it wasn't their is a skill in arguments. An example of a pathetic appeal happened in Saudi Arabia a while ago. A woman talked in a video about one of her children, and showed a picture of a girl who seemed really sick, asking for money so her daughter can make her surgery; people over there believed her and asked for her bank account, and started transferring money. After a while, they caught the woman after confessing that her daughter wasn't sick and it also wasn't her