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please help the adventures of tom sawyer
But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought of the conspicuousness of the principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit with the thought, and he said to himself that he wished he could be that child, if it was a tame lion. please help
Which word from the excerpt helps define pathos?
a. spectacle
b. character
c. moral
d. nations