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Using rhetoric in your writing, or style is like persuading someone to do something Devil in the White City (DWC) a book by Erik Larson uses a lot of different forms of rhetoric. There are three kinds of rhetoric: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos. Logos uses logical appeal to get to the person they are talking two to do it in a different way than they asked before. In DWC, Burnham was told that the ship he was sailing on was the largest ship ever built; when in the paper a couple days later, his friend Francis was actually on a bigger ship but it was sailing in the opposite direction. Pathos directs the question to going somewhere else; in DWC page five Richard uses pathos to say how the greatest event in history is the Civil War and how the civil war was better than the rest of them. Ethos uses emotions to get the reader to want to go for someone to have an emotional state while answering the question. “Mrs. Willard uses ethos referencing a man patting a curly haired boy; to patting mortar that was placed for a ceremony to take place” (pg. 58). The science of persuasion showed you how to persuade someone into letting you get what you want without making it really suspicious as to why you would want it.
