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Pathos is the term that refers to the moment when an actor writes a sentence to appeal to the audience's emotional. This sentence will not present logical facts to convince the public about something, but it will be a sentimental sentence, which will try to attract and shape the public's attention through the proliferation of feelings. This sentence can have a melancholy, happy, empathic, patriotic, nationalist, hateful content, among others that make the reader "feel" something and not, necessarily, reason about something.
Here's an example:
In the phrase "street animals have nothing to eat, soon they will look for food in the domestic waste, to satisfy hunger" the author used an appeal to logic, to present an increase. If an animal is hungry, it will logically look for food.
On the other hand, the phrase "I could see in the animals' countenance the hunger and sadness that the environment in which they lived imposed on him. Thin, crestfallen and without hope, they wag their tails and give sad looks to everyone who passed by," the author makes a appeal to the emotional, because it causes pity, sadness and empathy, for the situation of the animals.
