Rhetorical Analysis Of The Pepsi-Cola Come Alive Campaign

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In the 1960s, Pepsi-Cola came out with its Come Alive slogan and used that to revive its brand that had become boring and lost its popularity and to compete better with Coca-Cola. With the “Come Alive” and “You Are in the Pepsi Generation” in the 1960s. The Pepsi-Cola ad uses ethos, pathos, and big bold letters to introduce its drinks back to the market to compete with its biggest competitor, Coca-Cola. The indirect speaker of the Pepsi Coca-Cola company used this ad to target the market, but more specifically, the youth. And the rhetorical techniques they used are ethos and pathos. In the ad, the Pepsi cola company says “You’re in the Pepsi generation” which is the ethos appeal because now the drink seems like a key to fitting in. In the upper-right corner of the page there is a brief paragraph that describes the drink and the rhetorical appeal that is used there is pathos because …show more content…

The fallacies used in this ad are very well used because the phrase “you’re in the Pepsi-Cola generation” makes this drink look like the key to fitting in with others; one other fallacy used is cherry-picking and that is because, in that short paragraph in the ad, they only use nutrient facts to make the drink more appealing such as “bold and clean energy” and “less than a calorie per bottle.” This ad did not have a direct speaker, but it had an indirect speaker which was the Pep written the short paragraph on the upright of the ad because in that paragraph they used the cherry-picking fallacies which in customers’ eyes gives it more brownie points and makes the drink more appealing. In the brief paragraph, phrases such as “less than a calorie per bottle” were

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