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The Honda Jazz’s advertisement The advertising world is constantly finding way to persuade people into buying products. It is fairly evident that throughout history, advertisement have been capable of manipulating its audience. Advertisements are involved in almost every part of our daily lives: in fact, every brands always need a good campaign to establish itself in the market. That is why I have chosen to show my expertise and my professionalism on my recent work on the ad of the new Honda Jazz. In developing a rhetorical appeal ad, my Honda advertisement is to persuade people that the vehicle, The Honda Jazz is the most fuel-efficient vehicle automobile available in the market. With the end goal being to convince the specific target who are the owners of vehicle; the adults, the parents. I have tried to use a mix of pathos and logos to develop my argument. By using the 6-year old young girl, Amy who is sad since she has not seen her grandmother for a quite while because of high fuel costs. This utilization is aimed at drawing the crowd into purchasing the vehicle which as being qualified the most fuel efficient automobile in the market. …show more content…
In creating the ad, I used the logos form of rhetoric.
The evidence displayed in this advertisement is that the young girl has not been able to visit her grandmother for a considerable length of time because of the high cost of fuel. It is critical to understand that my ad focuses on drawing the attention of the audience by also employing the aspects of logos. My ad appeal to the people’s capacity to think rationally. It is imperative to understand that the advertisement targets a diverse audience and this means the aspect of appeal must be diverse and focus more on generating need within the mind of the customer. It seems to make sense that this vehicle must be better suited if it is more fuel proficient than other vehicle brands. In this case, the ad induces people to purchase the
car. Moreover, everybody values family, especially children, for the parents. In creating this ad, I employed the use of pathos by evoking a feeling of sadness to the audience. By looking at the ad, the emotions of the audience are evoked by the sadness of this young girl that is desperate and sad of being alone without that person whom she loved the most probably the mother or the father. Pathos appeal to emotions. Emotions are really present through this touching story and sad image. The ad plays on the feelings individual feel when they go through missing a family member because of condition that can easily be worked around by just purchasing another vehicle. Many parents can relate to this picture. Using children is very often the best way to plays on feelings. They incarnate innocence. My technique plays much more on the pity to attract people to buy the car. The aspect of master narrative has also been employed in this ad in the sense that I try to focus on aspects of family, something that the society holds up to. The relationship between children and their grandparents has always been a strong one. In the society, children love their grandparents, and they often crave to be with them regardless of the cost. In my ad, I integrated the master narrative to appeal to the target audience to buy a Honda Jazz as it is the solution to the underlying problem of the high fuel cost that denies young children like Amy the opportunity to be with their grandparents. The symbol of the family I employed in this ad is mentally persuasive in that it appeals to the emotional connections between siblings, parent-child, or parent relationships. In this sense, children are a unifying factor, and by missing to see their grandparents, it drives the attention of the family to the available solution which is Honda Jazz. A solution to the state of many people is getting a fuel efficient car that can allow the owner to abandon the worry of the cost of fuel. Honda Jazz comes in to solve the equation. I believe this ad will drive the attention of the audience to buy the car since there is no doubt the high cost of fuel denies many of us an opportunity to be with those we love or to do many things. This ad should consider as more appealing to the target audience, and I believe it will add value to the car by appealing to families which are the majority consumers of the automobile in the industry. I also believe that by including the story of Amy, the 6-year old girl, who has no visited her grandmother in weeks, allow the ad to show the roles adults play within the family and the expectations that come with it. The case here is ensuring the little girl sees her grandmother regularly as possible, and for the other people to move as they wish.
Some of the great philosophers known to man, Aristotle and Plato, wanted the ability to persuade. Aristotle wanted to be able to persuade people with a good amount of time, wisdom, and knowledge so that people could see the good of something. His student, Plato, wanted to be able to persuade people quickly and more affectively by persuading them in a very short time frame. So in order to quickly persuade people, Plato proposed an argument by expressing an idea and supporting it with rhetorical evidence. From Plato’s teaching came three types of rhetorical evidence; logos, which argues by logic; pathos, which argues by the use of sympathy and empathy; and ethos, which argues by the use of ethical appeals. Today the three types of rhetorical analysis can be found everywhere in everyday life. Just like Plato, ad writers who produce TV commercials want to persuade people in a short amount of time. These ad writers have to persuade the view point of their audience in about 30 seconds to a minute in time. In 2010, during Super Bowl XLIV, a commercial by Audi was premiered. This Audi commercial is a great example of the use of the three types of rhetorical evidence; logos, pathos, and ethos.
Advertisements often employ many different methods of persuading a potential consumer. The vast majority of persuasive methods can be classified into three modes. These modes are ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos makes an appeal of character or personality. Pathos makes an appeal to the emotions. And logos appeals to reason or logic. This fascinating system of classification, first invented by Aristotle, remains valid even today. Let's explore how this system can be applied to a modern magazine advertisement.
Nowadays, commercial is becoming a major part of mass media. It does not only try to inform people about the availability and attractiveness of industrial good productions but also contribute to build an awareness of resources and alternatives for customer in daily life. There are thousands of commercials, so to attract customer, advertisers use various kinds on their commercial to make people aware of the firm's products, services or brands. Though they use various kinds on the commercial, the main goal of advertising tries to convince customer to buy their products, or do what they want. An excellent commercial will create a deep impression on their customers, or who want to become their customers by using three classical appeals: pathos, ethos and logos.
Advertisers all have one goal in common, that is an ad that is catching to a consumer’s attention. In today’s fast paced society there are so many selling products and charities. As I exam the advertisement for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Animals (ASPCA), I will show how they use the pathos, ethos, and logos – also known as Aristotle’s Theory of Persuasion.
I am analyzing a commercial put on by the Hawaii State Department of Health's statewide health promotion campaign. This commercial is titled Re-think your drink and shows why choosing water, 100% juice, and low fat/1% milk is a healthier choice in beverages. Drinking one can of soda or juice a day can make a person 10 pounds heavier a year! Rhetorical devices that I have found in this text are pathos and ethos. The purpose of this analysis is to determine whether this commercial is effective or persuasive. The re-think your drink commercial for the start living healthy campaign is both effective and persuasive. Its pathos affects my emotion because it compares the amount of sugar in soda to a cup of orange junk. The rhetorical devices in this text have made "re-thinking my drink" very effective. This commercial is important because people that drink soda or juice don't realize how much sugar and fat that one can contains. To see orange junk come out of a can besides drinkable liquid is not appetizing at all.
Advertisements are one of many things that Americans cannot get away from. Every American sees an average of 3,000 advertisements a day; whether it’s on the television, radio, while surfing the internet, or while driving around town. Advertisements try to get consumers to buy their products by getting their attention. Most advertisements don’t have anything to do with the product itself. Every company has a different way of getting the public’s attention, but every advertisement has the same goal - to sell the product. Every advertisement tries to appeal to the audience by using ethos, pathos, and logos, while also focusing on who their audience is and the purpose of the ad. An example of this is a Charmin commercial where there is a bear who gets excited when he gets to use the toilet paper because it is so soft.
Everyone loves old people. The elderly as a whole are viewed as a wise, tough, and compassionate group. Dodge takes advantage of this fact in their most recent commercial featuring elderly people who are all around 100 years old, to associate their brand as a well established, trustworthy, and reliable company. The ad is effective in leveraging the wisdom and knowledge of the elderly while associating Dodge as a brand that utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos in their commercials. Dodge takes advantage of societies general admiration and trust in general for the elderly and use these feelings to try and persuade people to purchase their vehicle, in particular the Dodge Challenger.
Use of Pathos in an Ad Commercial Images used for advertisements, newspapers, or magazines usually include the significant purposes and ideas. Then, in many cases, they are described by ethos, pathos, and logos, which are used frequently to catch viewers’ attention. Even if the ads do not have concrete strategies and clear opinions, those ads may not be able to persuade the viewers. In other words, the excellent ads could use one of three persuasions. The following advertisement is the good example of embedded pathos in the advertisement.
Car commercials are made to convince the audience to buy their car because it is the best, or so they think. They do this by using different modes of persuasion; two examples of this are ethos and pathos. Ethos and pathos are methods used to persuade the audience into believing something that you want them to. Ethos is the ethical appeal that focuses on the author's credibility. It makes sure the audience believes something that an expert or character is saying about the product. Pathos, on the other side, is the emotional appeal that focuses on attracting the audience’s emotions. It makes the audience feel a certain way after watching the commercial. One example of ethos car commercial is “2015 Kia K900 Luxury Car – LeBron James Commercial – NBA Partnership – Valet” and “2014 Subaru Forester TV Commercial Daughter” car commercial for pathos.
An advertisement is a form of public writing in which the author uses writing strategies as a way to catch the attention of a reader and to persuade that reader to purchase what he or she is promoting. In order to create an effective advertisement, the author relies on the product’s credibility, uses reasons to convince the reader to buy what he/she is promoting, and attempts to appeal to the reader based on emotion. A way in which this can be achieved is through using three components of writing known as ethos, pathos and logos. As an example to illustrate how these strategies can be used as an effective method of persuasion, I have chosen to analyze an advertisement produced by a travel agency. In the ad, the author’s attempt is to use logos and pathos as his primary means of persuasion but touches on all three components of writing as a method of luring the reader into choosing Texas as the primary choice for a vacation destination. The author’s intent is to rely on this location to represent the travel agency as a source for planning the vacation.
Rhetoric is easily seen when comparing and contrasting these two forms of advertisement, as was proven. Between the Doritos commercial and the smoking billboard, examples of pathos, logos, and ethos were not hard to find. Both advertisements, though, were different in their ways of expressing rhetoric. Therefore, analyzing them individually was not the challenge, but choosing which manipulated rhetoric the best was hard. In general, it is important to recognize and interpret the pathos, logos, and ethos in all things and
For this paper, I looked at two ads that I found extremely powerful. The first ad has a picture of a woman who cannot be recognized at all, with a picture of what she used to like in the bottom left corner of the ad. The ad states that “not everyone that gets hit by a drunk driver dies.” Thus revealing the woman as a victim of a drunk driver. The second ad that I have selected was a picture of a parking stall for handicapped drivers. The ad has in bold white letters “Every 48 seconds, a drunk driver makes another person eligible to park here.” These ads are both powerful in their own sense, however, the ad with the victim of the drunk driver strikes me much harder than the one with the handicapped parking stall. Although both of these ads use a strong sense of pathos to get you to feel bad for those affected by drunk drivers, the ad with the picture of the victim has a much stronger effect.
In today's world of consumerism, there is great competition among businesses to sell their product. It goes without saying that in this complex society exists modern technology that has lead to the development of various media platforms. In turn, these various platforms are used by corporations to advertise their product. On that topic, there are various tools of advertising that corporations implement with their choice of media platform to sell their product more effectively. This paper will analyze the advertising tactics that are present in two poster advertisements, both of Lexus vehicles.
The campaign was built on selling a single advantage of the car in each ad that was created. There was a consistent theme between each advertisement: the pict...
Persuasion is a part of our everyday life. Whether we are persuading our mother, using persuasion through speech, or through advertisements, we are using rhetoric strategies to get the response we desire. With the help of minor details in many advertisements, Ethos, Logos, and Pathos are a way of persuading the audience to buy or think a certain way. A Colgate toothbrush commercial used Logos, Pathos and Ethos to spread the word that they have the best toothbrush of all, in which they target everyone who has teeth. Through the use of advertisements, Colgate has convinced the world that they have the best toothbrushes, they’re even recommended by dentists.