Definition:
“Appeals to the audience’s capacity for empathy, often by using an imaginable story to exemplify logical appeals.”
"Logos, Ethos, Pathos, Kairos." University of Louisville, 3 Apr. 2014, louisville.edu/writingcenter/for-students-1/handouts-and-resources/handouts-1/logos-ethos-pathos-kairos. Accessed 6 Sept. 2022.
Informal Definition:
Appealing to the audience's emotions to prove a point, typically by using a story.
Etymology:
“Mid 17th cent.: from Greek pathos ‘suffering’; related to paskhein ‘suffer’ and penthos ‘grief’.”
"Pathos." Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, 2022, www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/pathos?q=pathos. Accessed 6 Sept. 2022.
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