1. In the following passage from Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech,
which type of appeal is most prominent (stands out the most)?
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be
satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the
unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our
bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the
highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's
basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as
long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by
signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in
Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which
to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls
down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and
tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you
have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by
the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have
been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that
unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go
back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the
slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can
and will be changed.
A) Ethos
B) Pathos
C) Logos
1. In the following passage from Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech,
which type of appeal is most prominent (stands out the most)?
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be
satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the
unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our
bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the
highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's
basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as
long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by
signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in
Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which
to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls
down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and
tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you
have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by
the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have
been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that
unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go
back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the
slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can
and will be changed.
A) Ethos
B) Pathos
C) Logos
Martin Luther King is using pathos in this passage because he is describing
situations of inequality that would make people believe that right now
America is not equal. He makes his audience feel that America is unjust.
He uses situations like
 We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue
of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the
hotels of the cities.
 We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a
smaller ghetto to a larger one.
 We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their
self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites
Only."
2. In the following passage from Huey P Long’s “Every Man a King” speech,
which type of appeal is most prominent (stands out the most)?
Now, let us take America today. We have in American today, ladies and gentlemen,
$272,000,000,000 of debt. Two hundred and seventy-two thousand millions of
dollars of debts are owed by the various people of this country today. Why, my
friends, that cannot be paid. It is not possible for that kind of debt to be paid.
The entire currency of the United States is only $6,000,000,000. That is all of the
money that we have got in America today. All the actual money you have got in all of
your banks, all that you have got in the Government Treasury, is $6,000,000,000;
and if you took all that money and paid it out today you would still owe
$266,000,000,000; and if you took all that money and paid again you would still owe
$260,000,000,000; and if you took it, my friends, 20 times and paid it you would still
owe $150,000,000,000.
You would have to have 45 times the entire money supply of the United States today
to pay the debts of the people of America, and then they would just have to start out
from scratch, without a dime to go on with.
So, my friends, it is impossible to pay all of these debts, and you might as well find
out that it cannot be done. The United States Supreme Court has definitely found out
that it could not be done, because, in a Minnesota case, it held that when a State has
postponed the evil day of collecting a debt it was a valid and constitutional exercise
of legislative power.
A) Ethos
B) Pathos
C) Logos
2. In the following passage from Huey P Long’s “Every Man a King” speech,
which type of appeal is most prominent (stands out the most)?
Now, let us take America today. We have in American today, ladies and gentlemen,
$272,000,000,000 of debt. Two hundred and seventy-two thousand millions of
dollars of debts are owed by the various people of this country today. Why, my
friends, that cannot be paid. It is not possible for that kind of debt to be paid.
The entire currency of the United States is only $6,000,000,000. That is all of the
money that we have got in America today. All the actual money you have got in all of
your banks, all that you have got in the Government Treasury, is $6,000,000,000;
and if you took all that money and paid it out today you would still owe
$266,000,000,000; and if you took all that money and paid again you would still owe
$260,000,000,000; and if you took it, my friends, 20 times and paid it you would still
owe $150,000,000,000.
You would have to have 45 times the entire money supply of the United States today
to pay the debts of the people of America, and then they would just have to start out
from scratch, without a dime to go on with.
So, my friends, it is impossible to pay all of these debts, and you might as well find
out that it cannot be done. The United States Supreme Court has definitely found out
that it could not be done, because, in a Minnesota case, it held that when a State has
postponed the evil day of collecting a debt it was a valid and constitutional exercise
of legislative power.
A) Ethos
B) Pathos
C) Logos
Long is using logos because he is giving his audience members facts about
America’s current debt. He uses this fact to help convince his audience that
America is in trouble and that America has to change in order to have less
debt.
He uses numbers:
 Now, let us take America today. We have in American today, ladies and
gentlemen, $272,000,000,000 of debt.
 The entire currency of the United States is only $6,000,000,000.
He uses logic:
 All the actual money you have got in all of your banks, all that you have
got in the Government Treasury, is $6,000,000,000; and if you took all
that money and paid it out today you would still owe $266,000,000,000;
and if you took all that money and paid again you would still owe
$260,000,000,000; and if you took it, my friends, 20 times and paid it
you would still owe $150,000,000,000.