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ethos
- In ethos
It is distinguished from pathos, which is the emotion the speaker or writer hopes to induce in the audience. The two words were distinguished in a broader sense by ancient Classical authors, who used pathos when referring to the violent emotions and ethos to mean the calmer ones. Ethos…
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place in tragedy
- In comedy: Comedy and character
…disposition, or moral character) and pathos (emotion) displayed in a given situation. And the Latin rhetorician Quintilian, in the 1st century ce, noted that ethos is akin to comedy and pathos to tragedy. The distinction is important to Renaissance and Neoclassical assumptions concerning the respective subject of comic and tragic…
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