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| pathetic fallacy definitions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | ascribing feelings to things | 57 sets | |
| 2 | the attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example angry clouds; a cruel wind. | 11 sets | |
| 3 | faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects | 7 sets | |
| 4 | attribution of human emotions to nature | 5 sets | |
| 5 | attribution of human emotions to elements of nature | 4 sets | |
| 6 | the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects | 4 sets | |
| 7 | the author's use of the weather or season to convey emotions of characters and reflect situation | 4 sets | |
| 8 | when the author used weather to create mood or atmosphere in the story | 3 sets | |
| 9 | fallacy of emotion | 3 sets | |
| 10 | when an emotion or feeling is attached to something inanimate, particularly things in nature | 3 sets | |
| 11 | is giving a natural object human emotions | 3 sets | |
| 12 | a cliched personification of nature (rain weeps) | 3 sets | |
| 13 | human traits on inatimate objects | 2 sets | |
| 14 | ascribing feeling to things | 2 sets | |
| 15 | a specific kind of personification in which inanimate objects are given human emotions. "the cruel crawling foam" | 2 sets | |
| 16 | giving human emotion to elements of nature | 2 sets | |
| 17 | coined by john ruskin. ascribing emotion to inanimate objects. "the cruel crawling foam" | 2 sets | |
| 18 | the attribution of human feelings or responses to inanimate things or objects (especially the weather) | 2 sets | |
| 19 | when natural or inanimate objects are invested with living or human qualities. | 2 sets | |
| 20 | a form of personification giving human traits to nature | 2 sets | |
| 21 | treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations. | 2 sets | |
| 22 | in literature, the attribution of human feelings and characteristics to inanimate things | 2 sets | |
| 23 | human emotions attributed to nature | 2 sets | |
| 24 | a fallacy of reason suggesting that nonhuman phenomena act from human feelings. | 2 sets | |
| 25 | this occurs when a character's emotional state parallels with the environment | 2 sets | |
| 26 | the tendancy of writers to portray nature as having human emotions; the conventional belief that nature may behave in sympathy with human experience. | 2 sets | |
| 27 | ascribing feelings to think | 2 sets | |
| 28 | the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings | 2 sets | |
| 29 | using the weather to mimic a character's emotions | 2 sets | |
| 30 | n. human emotion or motivations are given to natural object (like tree). natural phenomena. (sort of like personification but focus more on natural) | 2 sets | |
| 31 | the attribution of human feelings to natural phenomena. | 2 sets | |
| 32 | a literary form in which the style of an author or particular work is mocked in its style for the sake of comic effect | 2 sets | |
| 33 | nature warning human kind; nature reacting to wrong doings of mankind | 1 set | |
| 34 | to 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 | |
| 36 | allows us to anthropomorphize, employing personification | 1 set | |
| 37 | giving human emotions to nature | 1 set | |
| 38 | form of personification that makes an illogical contradiction, implying the narrorator projecting his feelings onto the thing being personified. | 1 set | |
| 39 | coined 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 | |
| 40 | giving human feelings to inanimate objects. (example: the angry sea) | 1 set | |