Introduction
Adverts are part of our everyday lives. As one of the most effective forms of mass communication, adverts are essentially designed to attract people’s attention and draw them towards a certain product or service that the creator of the advert is selling. The last century has seen individuals and corporations perfect the art of advertising and currently, the advertising sector is a multibillion industry. Exquisite adverts grace our television screens, magazines, newspapers and roadside billboards urging us to buy certain products or services. To appeal to large audiences, the developers of adverts usually utilize fallacies such as pathos, ethos and ...