“I Has a Dream” ad answers
“I Has a Dream” ad
- What is the ethos of the Speaker in the “I Has a Dream” advertisement? What makes you think so?
- Who is the target audience? What suggests this? (Use specific evidence).
- What is one example of the use of pathos in the ad? How and why is it meant to persuade the audience?
- What is meant by “voice” in this ad? Be specific as to what you believe it means and how it is meant to be used to persuade.
- How are the rhetorical questions used in the ad? Provide answers to the rhetorical questions and explain using specifics how and why they are meant to persuade the target audience.
- Explain one of the fallacies from the ad and how and why it is persuasive to the target audience.
- Explain an appeal in the advertisement (other than appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos—like appeal to history or guilt etc…).
- How is diction (specific word choice that generates an effect) used in the ad to persuade? Support your claim with specific evidence and reasoning from the ad.
- Noting the target audience, what is the goal of the ad? What is being “sold”? Provide specific evidence for your conclusion.
- Find an appeal to logos in the ad and explain how it is meant to support the central argument and how it persuades the target audience.