1. A speech, figure of speech, or rhetorical device aimed to stimulate the passions: When Mary spoke to her audience in the town hall, she used the method of pathopoeia and put in all of her feelings in order to convince her listeners that she was the best candidate in the next election.
2. The excitation of passion by rhetoric, poetry, or music: At the concert, all of the audience fell into absolute silence as the passages played by the soloist put them into a trance of pathopoeia in which some of the listeners even started to cry because it was so beautiful and moving.