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pathos

Quality that arouses pity, sadness, or sympathy. In literature, pathos is attributed to a scene or passage designed to evoke feelings of tenderness, pity, or sympathy.



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Who can read that passage, and be in- sensible to its pathos and sublimity?
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
Had you seen, as I did, the fire of truth in those gray eyes; had you felt the ring of sincerity in that quiet voice; had you realized the pathos of it all--you, too, would believe.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
In continental Greece (1), on the other hand, but especially in Boeotia, a new form of epic sprang up, which for the romance and PATHOS of the Ionian School substituted the practical and matter-of-fact.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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