Popular song redirects here. For other uses, see Popular Song (disambiguation). Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or folk music.
The suade part that both words share has origins in the Latin root suadÄre, meaning âto urge.â In the case of persuade, the prefix per- means âthoroughly,â intensifying âto urgeâ and giving persuade its meaning of âto convince.â Think of dissuade as the opposite of persuade: the prefix dis- reverses the action of the root, giving the meaning of not ...
When you are persuaded by pathos, you accept a claim based on how it makes you feel, without fully analyzing how valid the claim is. You may be persuaded by fear, love, patriotism, hatred, joy, humor, guilt. The use of pathos can be extremely effective--and also manipulative. Logos refers to any attempt to appeal to the intellect. Logos appeals to the left side of our brain. We find certain patterns, conventions, and methods of reasoning to be convincing and persuasive. Numbers, polls, facts and statistics are also examples of the persuasive use of logic.