Virginia Convention Speech
In the "Speech in the Virginia Convention" Patrick Henry delivers a speech that grabs his audiences attention. Patrick Henry persuades his audience who are the delegates to prepare for war by using rhetorical devices such as ethos, rhetorical questions, and allusion.
Patrick Henry uses ethos quite often in his speech one example of this would be near the begging of his speech where he says" of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the
house."(Patrick Henry)
By saying this he is commenting the delegates in the same room so they can respect him in return or to relate with him. A main reason he uses ethos is to get his audience to relate them self with the opinions and ideas of Patrick Henry. It also used in his speech to show his audience that he is a follower of god and they to are followers so it is there "great responsibility which we hold to God"(Patrick Henry) to fight back. Overall Patrick Henry uses ethos to gain his audiences trust and good judgment.
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