Pathos

__Pathos__ is the writer or speaker's attempt to inspire and emotional reaction in an audience - usually a deep feeling of suffering, but sometimes joy, pride, anger, humor, patriotism, or an of a dozen other emotions.

An appeal to the emotions; often plays off of personal experience or a story

Pathos is the Greek word for both “suffering” and “experience.” The words empathy and pathetic are derived from pathos

Source: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_P.html


 * Examples**


 * Commercials -** All types of commercials use **pathos** to appeal what they're advertising to the viewers.


 * Animal Rescue commercials - They show pictures of injured animals to try to make people feel sympathy for these animals so they will donate money to the organization.
 * Appliance commercials - They often show exaggerated situations of people being frustrated with their old and inconvenient appliance to help the viewer think about how frustrated they are with their own appliances. Once the viewer sees how easy the person in the commercial has it with the advertised product, they will want to feel that ease and will then buy the product.
 * Referring to a country as “motherland” stirs up patriotic feelings in individuals living in that country or state.
 * Ads encouraging donations, show small children living in pathetic conditions to evoke pity in people to urge them to donate for the cause.


 * PATHOS**

By: Isabella Laurens

The ad below appeals to your emotions to encourage you to donate for the cause to save dogs.



To better understand all three, logos, pathos, and ethos. This website gives the meaning along with many examples for each type. http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-ethos-logos-and-pathos.html -Yaich

Pathos: a quality that evokes pity or sadness ~Jessica Klimp