pathos
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Pathos not being much of a dramatic engine, Wright works very hard, if fictionally, to crank up the stakes.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023
Pathos: the use of appeals to feelings and emotions shared by an audience.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
I’d seen the wonderful exhibition of Greek and Roman bronzes at the National Gallery in Washington called “Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2018
Along the Cypriot coast in Pathos, foamy waves leap around Aphrodite's Rock.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2016
Pathos is the appeal you see uppermost in the heart-wrenching, expensively printed flyers that pop through your letterbox asking for donations to charity.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing pathos
Argumentative Writing
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AP English Lit exam terms
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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