Pathos - emotion

• Greek word for both “suffering” and “experience”
• the emotional appeal; empathy and pathetic are derived from pathos
• persuading an audience by appealing to their emotions
• you invoke sympathy—making the audience feel what you them to feel

COMMON USES

1. Drawing pity from an audience
2. Inspiring anger from an audience, perhaps in order to prompt action

DEVELOPING PATHOS

• Meaningful language
• Emotional tone
• Emotion-evoking examples
• Stories of emotional events
• Implied meanings