What is pathos? Provide an example of an appeal using pathos

What will be an ideal response?

Pathos is the rhetorical use of emotions to affect audience decision making. I might use pathos to persuade by showing pictures of smoker and non-smoker's lungs, with the smoker's lungs being black and unhealthy to create a feeling of fear or disgust in audience members to get them not to smoke.

Communication & Mass Media

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What will be an ideal response?

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Sonja tries to have dinner with her family every night so they can share what happened to them that day and support each other, even if it means she may lose a promotion to a coworker who often works later into the evening. Which time-related element is most important to Sonja?

A) work time B) talk time C) relationship time D) wait time

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