examples of rhetorical devices, logos, pathos and ehtos

"that all negroes lie, that all negroes are immoral, that all negro men are not to be trusted around our women"

anaphora

"the defendant is not guilty, but someone in the court room is"

antithesis

"he did what any God-fearing, perservering, respectable"...

asyndenton / hyperbole

"i am confident that you gentleman will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family"

ethos

"a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing and there is no man who has never looked upon a woman without desire"

hyperbole

"this case should never had come to trial. this case is as simple as black and white"

logos

"I need not remind you of their appearance and conduct on the stand - you saw them for yourselves."

paralipsis

"a lie as black as tom robinsons skin, a lie i do not have to point out to you"

paralipsis

"makes a pauper the equal of a rockefller, the stupid man the equal of an einstein and the ignorant man the equal of any college president"

parallelism

"some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-- some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men"

parallelism

"she is the victim of a cruel poverty and ignorance"

pathos

"what did her father do? we dont know but there is a circumstantial evidence..."

rhetorical question