In this chapter the narrator talks about logical fallacies and what he calls the "Seven Deadly Sins. "The "Seven Deadly Sins" are, false comparisons, bad examples, ignorance, tautology, false choice, the red herring, and the wrong ending. A Logical fallacy, has either bad proof, a bad conclusion, or both! Saying one will most likely hurt your ethos, and people won't trust you when saying it. Here's a good "bad" example from page 137, "Elephants are animals, We are animals, therefore we are elephants." So basically if you put it in my words, if you say something that's dumb, no one would listen to you. They're also most likely to ignore you in the future because they would reference you for your "ignorance."
By this time the narrator has shown the basics of offense and defense, and now he will show us what he calls " the big guns". Cicero's five canons of persuasion: intervention, arrangement style, memory, and delivery. He says in the 2nd paragraph of the first page of chapter 25. "This is the order you yourself should use to make a speech." I can kind of relate to this because in class we learned 5 important steps to writing, they were Clarity, Brevity, Context ,Impact, and Value. He also claims to put on 283 "Ethos first, then logos, then pathos," as his rule of thumb.
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