Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Pathos Forum (Tahanee and Sam)

Pathos

I. Topics (Explain from Text)


Emotional Appeals


- Emotions (feelings) vs. appetites (pleasure, instinctive) vs. values (good/bad, relative) (p. 205)


- Humans have similar emotional pattern: aka they are communal (excited by our relationships with people. we all need love /family etc. we all understand this i.e. transference and the lamp) (p 209).


- Emotions are ‘logical’ (fear of death, greed, etc) (p 208).


- Aristotle’s 3 criteria: know your audience’s emotion, know who can excite those emotions, know the reason for those emotions (p. 209)


- Enargeia – vivid picture (empathy) (p.214)


- Honorific (praise) and Pejorative (demeaning) language (p. 217)


II.
Examples (Finding Pathos in arts and literature)


- Mayor Daley’s speech (does he have pathos?).


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Ikea Lamp Clip: empathetic of sadness/sympathy.


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Article: Anti-war flyer.

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