What are some examples of syllogisms in literature?

Kiersten: What are some examples of syllogisms in literature?
I tried to find examples of syllogisms in speeches, short stories, and other forms of literature. All I could find were short syllogisms that stood alone. Can anyone find a syllogism AND the piece of literature it was in?
Or maybe even syllogisms that aren’t really popular.

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Answer by Annataremrys
It’s not that they are not popular, it’s that they work so much better alone, I guess. I assume in your searching you came across Aristotle’s more popular syllogism, or at least his definition of the term? This site I list below shows beautifully how it is used in speeches , but it is hard to specifically point out since it is used within the structure of the speech or a form of logic such as:

Major premise: All men are mortal.
Minor premise: Socrates is a man.
Conclusion: Socrates is mortal.

It is really awkward to randomly put that within a speech or book directly, they may use the argument to form a speech though. The first and second pieces of the speech may reference these two slightly connecting facts, then use a concluding piece to show the way they connect and why a different conclusion is drawn. Almost any logical persuasive or logical debate piece can have elements of an overall syllogism.

Some slight examples in media are found towards the bottom of this site: https://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/syllogismterm.htm – though those more or less allude to the use of the syllogisms