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Research Paper Post #3 1. Can passion be brought on through influence? 2. How Words Influence the Passions 3. Edmund Burke, The Harvard Classics 4. [] 5. Through google search, on May 27, 2014 6. S- Edmund Burke O- To discuss how words can influence passion A- Myself, any editors, publishers, Mr. Barra, my class(if I include any information into my paper), any other readers P- To portray how people can make someone feel passion through their word choice S- Influence and its effect on the feeling of passion Tone- Informative, 7. In the source it discusses the three ways people can influence passion onto someone. The first way being that people tend to take a part in the passions of others, the second is the word choice people use that can leave an impression on you, and thirdly the way we interpret the words and how we connect them to other words and how we use them. 8. "N OW, as words affect, not by any original power, but by representation, it might be supposed, that their influence over the passions should be but light; yet it is quite otherwise; for we find by experience, that eloquence and poetry are as capable, nay indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases." 9. 10.  1.  "NOW, as words affect, not by any original power, but by representation, it might be supposed, that their influence over the passions should be but light; yet it is quite otherwise; for we find by experience, that eloquence and poetry are as capable, nay indeed much more capable, of making deep and lively impressions than any other arts, and even than nature itself in very many cases." 2. "...and that we are easily affected and brought into sympathy by any tokens which are shown of them; and there are no tokens which can express all the circumstances of most passions so fully as words;..." 3. "By this power of combining, we are able, by the addition of well-chosen circumstances, to give a new life and force to the simple object." 4. "...but the words that represent them often do; and thus they have an opportunity of making a deep impression and taking root in the mind, whilst the idea of the reality was transient; and to some perhaps never really occurred in any shape, to whom it is notwithstanding very affecting, as war, death, famine, &c."