S. After re. reading Jobs' speech, write down three pieces of his advice to the audience. Use your own words. Do these messages seem to hold more logos or pathos for you? Explain which of the two (logos or pathos) is more powerful to you. Why?

A. Pieces of advice

1. To succeed in life, a person has to be driven by a purpose and a firm belief in something that he respects.

2.Never compare your life to those of others. Life is a personal race.

3. Do not work just for survival. Be keenly interested in what you do and have a real passion for it.

B. The messages hold more pathos for me.

C. Logos is more powerful to me because it is argument based on logical reasoning. It makes references to data and sources that can be verified.

Explanation:

Steve Jobs delivered a commencement address to the graduating students from Stanford University in the year, 2005. In his address, he used a lot of stories bordering on connecting the dots, love and loss, as well as death to impress on the students, reasons why they should have a focus in life.

His speech had an emotional appeal to the audience. This is a feature of pathos which uses stories, motivational quotes, and other similar techniques to move the audience to action.

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment