Discuss the idea of Appeal to Emotion. There are different aspects of Appeal to Emotion, which type of Appeal to Emotion strikes you, and why?
The idea of appeal to emotion is when an argument is presented to the audience and it will try or attempt to persuade or manipulate the way the audiences feelings towards that argument. There are varies ways the argument can be presented so the audience will feel a certain way. I found the appeal of fear very striking. The reason is that every human being have fears. Most of us have the same fears also. For instance, I believe a majority of us fear the unknown, death, and possibly as a college student fear of failing a class. I know I am whenever I choose a certain class to take especially since soon I will have to take upper division classes which will be more difficult than the classes I have now. I fear I might not pass it, and thus not graduate. Anyways, another example is when advertisers try to the manipulate people to feel fear. For instance, I saw a commercial on television that was regarding antidepressant pills. The commercial showed a little girl talking about her mom and how she used to always play with her and how they both always laughed and had fun. After the little girl says now you just sit there staring at the television. I want my mommy back. That is an appeal to fear it showed the audience that if they didn't take their type of antidepressant the person you love can become like the mommy in the commercial.
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Hello ellacomm!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post. It was very organized, you introduced it with what an appeal to emotion is and what an appeal to fear is. You used great examples that i thought was very interesting. I've seen the antidepressant commercials on TV and it does scare me when I see it sometimes as well. That is a great example of an appeal to fear and I wouldn't have thought of that example to write in this week's discussion. And I completely agree with you about the fear of failing a class. I get that ALL the time, even when i'm doing well, I over think things during a test and don't do as well as I know I could because I just get nervous and just over think things. So don't feel like your the only one having a fear of failing. :) Again, great job!