Look up: pathos

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   Pathos
   the sense of pity or sorrow aroused by a particular element or scene in a literary work.
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   Pathos
   Poetry (or other literature) which evokes pity or sadness in the reader e.g. Send No Money by Philip Larkin. Carried too far, pathos can become bathos.
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   pathos
   [n] - a style that has the power to evoke feelings 2. [n] - a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
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   Pathos
   Pa'thos noun [ Latin , from Greek pa`qos a suffering, passion, from ..., ..., to suffer; confer ... toil, Latin pati to suffer, English patient .] That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; path ...
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   Pathos
   Pa'thos noun 1. The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions or feelings as distinguished from those which are universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to ethos . 2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
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   pathos
   poignancy noun a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); `the film captured all the pathos of their situation`
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   pathos
   noun a style that has the power to evoke feelings
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   Pathos
   `Pathos` is one of the three modes of persuasion in rhetoric (along with ethos and logos). Pathos appeals to the audience's emotions. It is a part of Aristotle's philosophies in rhetoric. Emotional appeal can be accomplished in a multitude of ways: * by metaphor or story telling, common as a hook, * by a general passion in the delivery and an overall amount of emotional items in the text of the speech, or in writing. In rhetoric, `pathos` is th...
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   Pathos
   • (n.) The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions or feelings as distinguished from those which are universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to ethos. • (n.) Suffering; the enduring of active stress or a...
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    pathos
    (from the article `comedy`) ...the pathos, or suffering, of mankind. This distinction goes back to Aristotle, who, in the Rhetoric, distinguished between ethos, a man`s natural ...
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    pathos
    pathos A quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow; a feeling of sympathy or pity. Pathos and pity have in common the idea of tender emotion aroused by suffering or distress. Pathos is a quality, as in literature and art, that arouses feelings of pity or sorrow. Bathos is the sudden shift in speech or writing from a lofty ...
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