I felt like I was in the room with Brown and his family and I could feel the tension and the emotion was almost overbearing. ... Bordo also used pathos in her essay. ... This essay made it clear that the American culture is vain and shallow. ... Bordo's essay used some facts as emotional lures, but pathos was still the main focus. Both of these authors persuade the reader to feel how they want you to feel and they used pathos to do so. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

But, writers can use rhetorical devices in short stories and articles to help us get a glimpse of what it's really like to be in the military. ... Everyone knows what it's like to go back to a place where you've spent a big part of your life, which makes it easy to imagine what it feels like and makes it feel so real. ... "He looked at Helena, who sat down on the corner of one, bouncing on the edge of the mattress like a kid with an attention disorder" (Fallon 134). ... The reader feels shocked in these scenarios as well, because they wouldn't be expecting this situation e...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School