Response to Robert Clemans Post on Rhetoric

I enjoyed your post on rhetoric, it did a great job of defining and giving specific examples of each type of rhetoric. Your writing was very direct and to the point you included a brief history and the examples were also clear and easy to identify the rhetoric involved. I continue to struggle to understand the difference between ethos and pathos sometimes, since it seems to me that if something was involving me specifically, it would be emotional to me. Comparing your examples helped me see the line that exists between the two type of rhetoric, that even though the ethos may be very personal, it doesn't necessarily have to be emotional.