expressive style vs pathos

pathos vs expressive style

expressive style and pathos both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
pathos	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pathos is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, pathos is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
pathos: a style that has the power to evoke feelings

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	pathos (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
	a style that has the power to evoke feelings
	a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

Difference between expressive style and pathos

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