pathopoeia

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

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