Effective Use Of Pathos In Loretta Lynch's Speech

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On May 27th, 2015, in Brooklyn, New York, Loretta Lynch delivered a speech addressing the charges and arrests of corrupt FIFA officials. A few class concepts that Lynch effectively exhibited in her speech are pathos, logos, and verbal delivery. Lynch exhibited pathos in her speech. The term pathos is defined as, “Using the emotions such as love, anger, joy, hate, desire for community to persuade the audience of the rightness of a proposition” (Mapes, 2019). Specifically, an example of this occurs toward the very beginning of her speech where she states that the individuals she was exposing were entrusted with responsibilities such as building soccer fields for children in developing countries and organizing the World Cup, but instead they corrupted …show more content…

Along the same line, those invested in this speech are most likely fans of soccer, and also the World Cup by default. Since the corrupt officials’ time was spent focusing on enriching themselves and participating in shady business practices, they would have clearly neglected their responsibilities surrounding the World Cup. Any soccer fan would be appalled to learn this, therefore Lynch’s exhibited pathos strategy was quite effective. Another concept that Lynch effectively displayed in her speech was logos. The definition of logos is, “The organized and logical arguments that are used to support a claim” (Mapes, 2019). Lynch utilized logos in her speech when she conveyed an example of how soccer officials used their positions of trust to solicit bribes from sports marketers in exchange for commercial rights to their soccer tournaments. The specific instance she named was how in 2016, the Copa America was hosted and instead of being an expression of sportsmanship, it was used as a vehicle in a broader scheme to grant the executives bribe money that totaled to 110 million dollars (Lynch,

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