<span>D. Pathos</span>
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<span>Pathos is a literary device
that is used to garner emotions of pity, sorrow, anger, or other passionate
feelings to the point where readers/listeners/audience members are persuaded
into acting or thinking in a way the author/speaker wishes. Thus, it is a persuasive literary device. That said, let’s look at a few phrases
from the excerpt that employ pathos by manner of describing scenes of injustice
and cruelty:</span>
“He has plundered our seas…destroyed
the lives of our people.”
“…to complete the works of
death, desolation, and tyranny...”
“…scarcely paralleled in the
most barbarous ages…”
From these lines alone, it can
be seen how readers might be compelled to view the one being described in the
light the author does because the emotions that might be invoked by
descriptions provided.
