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?).
- Ikea Lamp Clip: empathetic of sadness/sympathy.
- Article: Anti-war flyer.
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?).
- Ikea Lamp Clip: empathetic of sadness/sympathy.
- Article: Anti-war flyer.
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