After analyzing these particularly relevant rhetorical aspects of Foss’s speech, it become possible to speculate on the effectiveness of the speech’s invention and reception by revisiting the four components Foss’s argument boil down to. Foss’s invention and delivery of “the problem” is effective because, despite the logical fallacy inherent in its implications, he is so effective at establishing his ethos. By informing his audience of his professional ethics, and family upbringing, Foss establishes his credibility as reliable; making Foss’s logical fallacy and argument appear credible to the audience. Foss’s invention and delivery of “the question” is effective because he is able to utilize that question as both a means to establish stasis regarding the issues in debate with his audience, and he is able to utilize that question as an appeal to the audience’s logos.…show more content… Foss’s invention and delivery of “the answer” is effective because he is able to provide an answer to the problem he poses to the audience which furthers his rhetorical agenda by appealing to the audience’s pathos. Foss’s strategy to garner sympathy for his answer is successful because Foss is able to provide sympathetic evidence, in the form of Christopher’s story, as a means to illustrate a cause and effect relation between Foss’s answer to the audience. The story not only shows that there is a more appealing way for a prosecutor to exercise their duties, it supports his assertion that the audience should demand that other prosecutors do the same, because it is a better way for prosecutors to conduct their duties. And
