Logos is a logical appeal or logical argument. Anytime an
author or speaker uses facts, theories, or logical rationales to convince a reader of an
argument, we call that logos. In 's , while we
may not see any arguments in which the author, narrator, or even a character tries to convince
us of something, we do see the Gregor try to reason
his way out of his situations. One example can be
seen in the very first paragraphs of the book. When he awakens to find he has tremendously
transformed, he tries to rationally explain away the situation for himself. One
rational argument he makes to himself is posed in the form of a , "How would
it be if I kept sleeping for a little while longer and forgot all this foolishness ..."
(Ch. 1). By proposing more sleep, he is suggesting to himself that the changes he is seeing are
merely just a dream, which rationally makes sense on a level
considering the narrator also reports Gregor had "restless dreams" all...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
What are examples of pun, refrain, foil, metonymy, and logos in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis? Why are they important?
Tamara K. H.
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