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Ethos basically speaks to the moral authority of a speaker, their basic credibility... how do they establish they know what they are talking about and have a right to be talking about it?

The two paragraphs starting with "My experience has been" are an excellent example.

Wikipedia has an excellent definition of ethos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos

Text of the speech:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9399834/Document-Malcolm-X-Advice-to-the-Youth-of-Mississippi

You can listen for yourself here:
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/mxwords/whathesaid11.html

2007-02-19 03:17:04 · answer #1 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 0 0

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