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Ted Talk Response
Ted Talk Response
its development over
the course of the speech in an objective summary.
In your response, be sure to:
Identify the central idea of the speech.
Explain the key details used to support the central idea.
Discuss the different rhetorical devices used to develop the central idea.
o Logos, an appeal to logic;
o Pathos, an appeal to emotion;
o Ethos, an appeal to ethics; or,
o Kairos, an appeal to time.
The central idea of the speech was that procrastinators don’t get very far. In the video
you can see that the illustrations he showed was basically procrastinators in a nutshell.
He uses the monkey as procrastinators and the human as non-procrastinators.