PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Pathos is Greek for suffering and experience. Empathy, sympathy and pathetic are derived from pathos. Pathos is to persuade by appealing to the audience’s emotions. As the speaker, you want the audience to feel the same emotions you feel about something, you want to emotionally connect with them and influence them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pathos: Pathos is the use of language, examples, diction, or images to create an emotional reaction in the reader. The most common types are anger at a social injustice, sympathy for another’s misfortune, or laughter at a humorous or illogical state of affairs.

Detailed explanation-3: -PATHOS, “suffering” or “experience” in Greek, refers to the “emotional appeal” that the writer/speaker makes to the audience. The writer/speaker can develop pathos in a number of ways: Tone and Style.