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  2. Pathos - Wikipedia

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    For example, this type of advertising is exemplified in large food brands such as Presidents Choice's "Eat Together" campaign (2017), and Coca-Cola's "Open-happiness" campaign (2009). One of the most well-known examples of pathos in advertising is the SPCA commercials with pictures of stray dogs with sad music.

  3. Modes of persuasion - Wikipedia

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    Pathos (plural: pathea) is an appeal to the audience's emotions. [6]: 42 The terms sympathy, pathetic, and empathy are derived from it. It can be in the form of metaphor, simile, a passionate delivery, or even a simple claim that a matter is unjust. Pathos can be particularly powerful if used well, but most speeches do not solely rely on pathos.

  4. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Parenthesis – an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage that is not essential to the literal meaning. Parody – comic imitation of something or somebody. Paronomasia – a pun, a play on words, often for humorous effect. Pathos – the emotional appeal to an audience in an argument; one of Aristotle's ...

  5. Rhetorical stance - Wikipedia

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    The original version includes only three points: the writer/speaker (ethos), the audience (pathos), and the message itself (logos). All the points affect one another, so mastering each creates a persuasive rhetorical stance. [9] The rhetorical tetrahedron carries those three points along with context. Context can help explain the "why" and "how ...

  6. Mythos (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    Mythos [from Ancient Greek μῦθος mûthos] is the term used by Aristotle in his Poetics (c. 335 BCE) to mean an Athenian tragedy's plot as a "representation of an action" [1] or "the arrangement of the incidents" [2] that "represents the action". [3] Aristotle distinguishes plot from praxis – which are the actions the plots represent. [4]

  7. 15 Underrated Gerard Butler Action Movies You Need to See - AOL

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    The film is a great example of why we come back to Gerry: within the confines of a sub-2 hour thriller, he plays Men on a Mission to maximum effect, and his bug-eyed exasperation translates to ...

  8. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [ 2 ] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration , or telling; description , or picturing; exposition , or explaining; and argument , or ...

  9. Rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    For example, some argued that cultural practices were a function of convention or nomos rather than blood or birth or phusis. [67] They argued further that the morality or immorality of any action could not be judged outside of the cultural context within which it occurred.