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AdoreroDio
09-13-2010, 10:25 PM
I'm writing an essay on Milton's Paradise Lost and exploring Satan's use of rhetoric in his temptation of Eve. Often he uses flattery as a way of winning her heart.

My question is this:

Is flattery an example of pathos?

Or another of the three types of rhetoric? Or a category of it's own?