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Definition of Logos
Logos, along with ethos and pathos, is one of the three "modes of persuasion" in rhetoric (the art of effective speaking or writing). Logos is an argument that appeals to... read full definition
Logos, along with ethos and pathos, is one of the three "modes of persuasion" in rhetoric (the art of effective speaking or writing). Logos is... read full definition
Logos, along with ethos and pathos, is one of the three "modes of persuasion" in rhetoric (the art of effective... read full definition
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Key Examples in Romeo and Juliet
Act 1, Scene 1
Explanation and Analysis—Sampson's Innuendo :
In Act 1, Scene 1, Sampson, a servingman of the house of Capulet, employs logos as he jokes around with another Capulet servingman, Gregory, in the town square:
Sampson: A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.
Gregory: That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall.
Sampson: ’Tis true, and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall. Therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall.
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Act 4, Scene 1
Explanation and Analysis—Friar Laurence's Logic:
In Act 4, Scene 1, Juliet—having learned that her family is about to marry her to Paris—goes to Friar Laurence and threatens to kill herself. Friar Laurence begs her not to and hastily devises a solution, which he persuades her to agree to through the use of logos:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope,
Which craves as desperate an execution
As that is desperate which we would prevent.
If, rather than to marry County Paris,
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
Then is it likely thou wilt undertake
A thing like death to chide away this shame,
That cop’st with death himself to ’scape from it;
And if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.
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