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Pathos (Greek: πάθος – feeling, emotion) is a rhetorical category that corresponds to the style, manner, or way of expressing feelings, which are characterized by emotional intensity and enthusiasm.

This category was first fully developed by Aristotle, who, along with pathos, identified ethos and logos as elements of rhetoric. In Aristotle's interpretation, pathos is a technique in which the aesthetics of the narrative are conveyed through the tragedy of the hero, his suffering, and the responsive emotions of the audience. Using pathos, the speaker should evoke the desired feelings in the audience without fully revealing their own.

In a later interpretation, in the works of Hegel, the concept of pathos was expanded to include not only tragic but also solemn and elevated aesthetics. Heroic, tragic, romantic, and sentimental pathos are distinguished. Authors of odes, epics, and tragedies traditionally resort to pathos.

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