Usually means: Evoking emotion through rhetorical art.
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  1. pathopoeia: Wordnik
  2. pathopoeia: Wiktionary
  3. Pathopoeia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. pathopoeia: FreeDictionary.org
  5. pathopoeia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  6. pathopoeia: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pathopoeia)

noun:  (music) The arousing of emotion in someone who hears music; a passage designed to arouse emotions.
noun:  (rhetoric) Speech that moves hearers emotionally, especially as the speaker attempts to elicit an emotional response by way of demonstrating his or her own feelings.

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