Read these lines from the excerpt again: But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he
only thought of the conspicuousness of the principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit with the thought, and he said to himself that he wished he could be that child, if it was a tame lion. Which word from the excerpt helps define pathos?
This is so because Pathos is a Greek word that can take several meanings. It is one of the three modes of persuasion in rhetoric, according to Aristotle's philosophy. In Aristotle's Rhetoric, pathos is the use of human feelings to affect a jury's judgment. "Wished" demonstrates a feeling.
