Pathos

Pathos: Qualities of a work that evoke pity or sorrow. An excess of pathos can create over- emotionalism.

Example:
" "The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; an not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin."
(Frederick Douglass, Pg.7)

This is an example of pathos because Douglass is trying to make us feel the pain the his AUnt was going through. He does this by using cause in effect. He tries very hard to appea to our emotions in this short exerpt.