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A general term for speech that moves hearers emotionally, especially as
the speaker attempts to elicit an emotional response by way of demonstrating
his/her own feelings (exuscitatio).
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Melanchthon
explains that this effect is achieved by making reference to any of a
variety of pathetic circumstances: the time, one's gender, age, location,
etc. |
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O that my
head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep
day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people. —Jeremiah
9:1-2. |
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Sources: |
Melanch. IR d5v
("adfectus" "pathopoeia"); Sherry (1550) 982 ("pathopeia")
Peacham (1577) P3r; Smith ("affectus expressio" "pathopoeia"),
266-67. |
