Pathos Ethos Effective persuasion uses all three kinds of appeals. Are the following examples of ethos, pathos, or logos? He was a famous Greek philosopher who studied the art of persuasion. Now the proofs furnished by the speech are of three kinds.
A pedestrian is someone traveling by foot. If you're walking, you might get angry at the drivers who don't stop so you can cross the street. But if you're driving, you might fight the urge to run over those annoying pedestrians! Pedestrian comes from the Latin pedester meaning going on foot but also plain.. As a noun, it's someone walking around â sidewalks are for pedestrians. As an adjective it means lacking wit or imagination.. If someone calls your new poem pedestrian, they mean it's dull.
I grabbed this one because I figured it would be a quick and easy answer. I figured wrong. My usual word and phrase origin sources all came up dry on jaywalking - except for Old Faithful, the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED gives this definition for jaywalking: A pedestrian who crosses the street without regard to traffic regulations.. It gives this cite from the June, 1927 edition of Harper's: the Bostonian ... has reduced 'a pedestrian who crosses streets in disregard of traffic signals' to the compact 'jaywalking.'.