The sublime use of a figure of speech and Alberto Caeiro’s rhetorical pathos

This article proposes a reading, with a rhetorical approach, of Fernando Pessoa’s works, by identifying the heteronym with a figure of speech - the ethopoeia. It also investigates the pathos contained on Alberto Caieiro’s discourse.

Keywords:
heteronym; rhetoric; Alberto Caeiro; ethopoeia; ethos and pathos