TASK ONE For THREE of the following, identify whether or not ethos is used.
Be sure to clearly explain your thinking. See the example.
Ethos? Explain
Ex "You should definitely get help with your
The speaker has referred to their extensive experience in this area, in order to
debt, & I say that as somebody with over Yes give credit to their opinion. Somebody with over 30 years experience would
30 years experience of debt counseling."
surely know what they are talking about.
"As your father, I love you and only
want the best for you. Therefore
1 when I ask you not to go, please
Yes
Father = Trustworthy.
listen to me."
2
"We really should try that recipe.
Someone told me that it was good."
3
"The research - conducted by
professors at Harvard University -
suggests that you should learn a
second language.
"Dentists all over the world are
4 telling their patients the same
things. You must floss regularly."
"I read somewhere that bicarbonate
5 of soda is really useful for cleaning.
You should try it."

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion