In Rhetoric, author and philosopher Aristotle identifies three main modes of rhetorical writing. Aristotle classifies one of these styles, pathos, as a narrator's ability to illustrate a character’s emotions to their readers. He continues to say that “to understand the emotions---that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited…”(Book 1.2.1356a24-1356a25). Pathos is commonly confused with bathos, a term given sense by Alexander Pope in his writing The Art of Sinking in Poetry. Pope argues that bathos juxtaposes genuine emotions with the superficial. He continues in saying that though pathos and bathos may have similar definitions, in comparison to pathos, bathos is anticlimactic. In Mark Twain’s
