id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2171 Pathos - Wikipedia .html text/html 3151 433 57 Pathos (/ˈpeɪθɒs/, US: /ˈpeɪθoʊs/; plural: pathea; Greek: πάθος, for "suffering" or "experience"; adjectival form: pathetic from παθητικός) appeals to the emotions of the audience and elicits feelings that already reside in them.[1] Pathos is a communication technique used most often in rhetoric (in which it is considered one of the three modes of persuasion, alongside ethos and logos), as well as in literature, film and other narrative art. In Rhetoric, Aristotle identifies three artistic modes of persuasion, one of which is "awakening emotion (pathos) in the audience so as to induce them to make the judgment desired."[2] In the first chapter, he includes the way in which "men change their opinion in regard to their judgment. In the second chapter of Rhetoric, Aristotle's view on pathos changes from the use in discourse to the understanding of emotions and their effects. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2171.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2171.txt