Means of persuasion include select all that apply.

a. ethos

b. logos

c. pathos

d. topos

The correct answers are A, B, and C.

Means of persuasion, as the term itself would suggest, are used to persuade someone into believing the speaker/writer. Ethos means that the author is using evidence to support his or her claims; logos means that there are some logical conclusions there; pathos refers to the use of emotions and eliciting feelings in the audience.

There is another means of persuasion, although it is not as common as the other three - kairos (time and place).

Topos is not one of these means - it just refers to a location.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

a question like this requires the excerpt to be included in order to answer the question.