Pathos or the emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions. Authors use pathos to invoke sympathy from an audience; to make the audience feel what the author wants them to feel. A common use of pathos would be to draw pity from an audience.

An emotional appeal is directed to sway an audience member’s emotions and uses the manipulation of the recipient’s emotions rather than valid logic to win an argument. In an emotional appeal, persuasive language is used to develop the foundation of an appeal to emotion-based arguments instead of facts.

Persuade: If an author writes a persuasive piece of text, he or she is trying to convince the audience that their arguments or ideas have merit. An author’s persuasive writing will be debatable. The writer would like to prove that a certain thing or things “should not/must not” or “should/must” be done.

What is a persuasive/argument essay? Persuasive writing, also known as the argument essay, uses logic and reason to show that one idea is more legitimate than another. The argument must always use sound reasoning and solid evidence by stating facts, giving logical reasons, using examples, and quoting experts.

How does the author share their opinion about an issue through persuasive writing? Share their personal opinion. To convince the reader to agree with the author about an issue through use of facts. To convince the reader to agree with the author about an issue through the use of fictional facts.

A party who files an appeal is called an “appellant”, “plaintiff in error”, “petitioner” or “pursuer”, and a party on the other side is called an “appellee”. A “cross-appeal” is an appeal brought by the respondent. For example, suppose at trial the judge found for the plaintiff and ordered the defendant to pay $50,000.

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Appeals are decided by panels of three judges working together. The appellant presents legal arguments to the panel, in writing, in a document called a “brief.” In the brief, the appellant tries to persuade the judges that the trial court made an error, and that its decision should be reversed.

most powerful If someone (or something) is powerful, they have much power.

Some rules about forming comparatives and superlatives

Finally, there are three very common adjectives that have very irregular comparative and superlative forms. They are good > better > best, bad > worse > worst and far > further > furthest: His laptop is better than mine.

“Best” is the superlative form of good and “greatest” of great. Best usually refers to commendations of experts or those who have experienced the thing being described.

Superlatives. These three words—good, better, and best—are examples of the three forms of an adjective or adverb: positive, comparative, and superlative. …