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pathetic fallacy definitions
# Definition Sets
1ascribing feelings to things57 sets
2the attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example angry clouds; a cruel wind.11 sets
3faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects7 sets
4attribution of human emotions to nature5 sets
5attribution of human emotions to elements of nature4 sets
6the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects4 sets
7the author's use of the weather or season to convey emotions of characters and reflect situation4 sets
8when the author used weather to create mood or atmosphere in the story3 sets
9fallacy of emotion3 sets
10when an emotion or feeling is attached to something inanimate, particularly things in nature3 sets
11is giving a natural object human emotions3 sets
12a cliched personification of nature (rain weeps)3 sets
13human traits on inatimate objects2 sets
14ascribing feeling to things2 sets
15a specific kind of personification in which inanimate objects are given human emotions. "the cruel crawling foam"2 sets
16giving human emotion to elements of nature2 sets
17coined by john ruskin. ascribing emotion to inanimate objects. "the cruel crawling foam"2 sets
18the attribution of human feelings or responses to inanimate things or objects (especially the weather)2 sets
19when natural or inanimate objects are invested with living or human qualities.2 sets
20a form of personification giving human traits to nature2 sets
21treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations.2 sets
22in literature, the attribution of human feelings and characteristics to inanimate things2 sets
23human emotions attributed to nature2 sets
24a fallacy of reason suggesting that nonhuman phenomena act from human feelings.2 sets
25this occurs when a character's emotional state parallels with the environment2 sets
26the tendancy of writers to portray nature as having human emotions; the conventional belief that nature may behave in sympathy with human experience.2 sets
27ascribing feelings to think2 sets
28the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings2 sets
29using the weather to mimic a character's emotions2 sets
30n. human emotion or motivations are given to natural object (like tree). natural phenomena. (sort of like personification but focus more on natural)2 sets
31the attribution of human feelings to natural phenomena.2 sets
32a literary form in which the style of an author or particular work is mocked in its style for the sake of comic effect2 sets
33nature warning human kind; nature reacting to wrong doings of mankind1 set
34to sympathize with nature as if it were human; "the wind moaned" "the trees lamented"1 set
35"a phrase to denote the tendency to credit nature with human emotions. in a larger sense is any false emotionalism resulting in a too impassioned description of nature."1 set
36allows us to anthropomorphize, employing personification1 set
37giving human emotions to nature1 set
38form of personification that makes an illogical contradiction, implying the narrorator projecting his feelings onto the thing being personified.1 set
39coined by john ruskin - the technique of giving human feelings to nature; nature is so stronglly personified that it responds in a human way to some human action (or appears to!)1 set
40giving human feelings to inanimate objects. (example: the angry sea)1 set