USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

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Which definition closely relates to pathos?

(A) credibility and trustworthiness

(B) ** emotions or emotional appeal

(C) Logic and reasoning

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Pathos, or the appeal to emotion, means to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.

Concept note-2: -Defining Emotional Appeal Pathos represents an appeal to the audience’s emotions. An emotional appeal is directed to sway an audience member’s emotions and uses the manipulation of the recipient’s emotions rather than valid logic to win an argument.

Concept note-3: -Pathos, the emotional appeal, is used to invoke sympathy with meaningful language, a moving tone, or touching stories. Example: “Some people feel they have wasted their lives, but it is never too late to renew a sense of purpose and meaning and make a valuable contribution to the world that only they can make.”

Concept note-4: -The Greek word páthos means “experience, misfortune, emotion, condition, ” and comes from Greek path-, meaning “experience, undergo, suffer.” In English, pathos usually refers to the element in an experience or in an artistic work that makes us feel compassion, pity, or sympathy.

Concept note-5: -Ethos appeals to the speaker’s status or authority, making the audience more likely to trust them. Pathos appeals to the emotions, trying to make the audience feel angry or sympathetic, for example. Collectively, these three appeals are sometimes called the rhetorical triangle.