pathos
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Pathos might never be far away but humour is always at the forefront.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2024
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, by which I mean here a kind of collapse into poignant sadness, is often the most apt response to excruciating, unsustainable contradictions.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023
Pathos is meant to inspire sympathy and understanding in the viewer.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Pathos and proprietorship, rightly applied to a nature like Lancelot’s, might have been successful in binding him.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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