Talk:Pathos
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[edit] Rhetoric
if someone wants to actually do something for this page, i'd suggest adding more information about how it relates to the three audience appeals addressed in Rhetoric (ethos, pathos, and logos). It would probably be fairy easy to just look at a few other pages and see what's being said on them. --Vicapowell39 (talk) 01:37, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Definition?
pathos: The effect of literature which makes the reader feel sadness or pity
- That's actually not the only definition, and by the way, you put that on the Talk page instead of the article. According to Princeton's Wordnet [1], "pathos" is:
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- "poignancy (a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow))"
- "commiersation, puty, ruth, pathos (a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others)"
- "a style that has the power to evoke feelings"
- Runa27 00:02, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Structure
The article needs some structure, it is almost illegible. -- Aethralis 20:54, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pathetic?
Why does "pathetic" redirect here? Mouse 04:35, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- Because if someone redirects it to here it will be a POV. ;-) 58.178.84.26 00:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with Mousy, why does it redirect here? It makes no sense to me since it isn't mentioned in the article. Oh and that doesn't answer the question, I want some intelligent answer, not obvious answer. TheBlazikenMaster 17:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
- It now redirects to the wictionary definition.-- Avg 23:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
- I agree with Mousy, why does it redirect here? It makes no sense to me since it isn't mentioned in the article. Oh and that doesn't answer the question, I want some intelligent answer, not obvious answer. TheBlazikenMaster 17:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
- It's possible somebody none-too-wisely tried to draw the (semi-)obvious connection between pathos and empathy. If you look at the Pathetic fallacy article, it notes that the term's first half comes from "empathy". However, unfortunately normal English does not use "pathetic" that way, so it ended up just being a really weird redirect; switching the redirect to Wikitionary is probably for the best, all things considered. 4.235.6.119 (talk) 14:36, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Length
why is this article so short? Fruckert (talk) 19:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
