definitions please

Words that we have disscussed in class and that are found ihn Frye's text that i can't seem to define on my own
(I picked out the definitions i liked the best)

Pathos-1 : an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion or tears

Spoudaios-active, diligent, zealous, earnest

Dianoia-the mind as a faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring


Alright now on to the theory of Modes:

Fiction According to Frye
There is a difference between fictions and those differences lie with in the characters in the fictions themselves. fictions are not based off morality, not concerned with the god or the bad but rather their ability or inability to accomplish what it is that they are trying to do.

Fiction According to Me
So what i gather from what Frye expresses in this chapter is that fiction is not necessarily didactic, but rather purposeful though the characters in the fiction, which i found to be interesting because i remember always being read fictions that had some type of moral, but looking at that now it is kind of easier to see that we as people always try and discover the moral in a text , even if there is not one to be found. i think the reason we do this is to comfort our selves in some sort of way so that we feel like the three little pigs we able to offer us something. its sees as if we are unable to just deal with the fact that somethings have a purpose, but are not necessarily instructive...