Patrick Henry gave a speech to the colonist of his time about why they should go to war with Great Britain . In Patrick Henry's Speech to the virginia Convention , Pathos was used because it was very persuasive to the colonist. Patrick Henry persuades the colonists by using Emotional questions . Patrick Henry asked rhetorical questions with loaded words such as would you rather be Free or a Slave.
“For my own part i consider it as nothing less than a question of Freedom or Slavery” (102) .
Its making the colonist think about the question he asked personal nobody wants someone else to own them. Henry made them have more hope to be free and like it the responsibility to be free . That only in this way