Question

Complete the sentence. Ethos appeals to the audience's _____. emotional involvement in the speech respect for a speaker's authority and character sense of right and wrong ability to reason through the speech's claims

Answer 1

Ethos appeals to the audience's "respect for a speaker's authority and character". Ethos is one type of rhetorical device that appeals to credibility and reputation of the author. It is by the authority or the honesty of the speaker that the audience is persuaded and convinced of an argument.The other two types of Aristotle's rethorical devices are "logos", which appeals to facts and statistics, persuasive arguments, and "pathos", which appeals to emotions.