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| pathetic fallacy definitions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | ascribing feelings to things | 32 sets | |
| 2 | the attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example angry clouds; a cruel wind. | 7 sets | |
| 3 | faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects | 6 sets | |
| 4 | attribution of human emotions to nature | 5 sets | |
| 5 | in literature, the attribution of human feelings and characteristics to inanimate things | 3 sets | |
| 6 | a cliched personification of nature (rain weeps) | 3 sets | |
| 7 | fallacy of emotion | 3 sets | |
| 8 | attribution of human emotions to elements of nature | 3 sets | |
| 9 | is giving a natural object human emotions | 3 sets | |
| 10 | a specific kind of personification in which inanimate objects are given human emotions. "the cruel crawling foam" | 2 sets | |
| 11 | the attribution of human feelings or responses to inanimate things or objects (especially the weather) | 2 sets | |
| 12 | the fallacy of attributing human feelings to inanimate objects | 2 sets | |
| 13 | the attribution of human feelings to natural phenomena. | 2 sets | |
| 14 | a fallacy of reason suggesting that nonhuman phenomena act from human feelings. | 2 sets | |
| 15 | human traits on inatimate objects | 2 sets | |
| 16 | human emotions attributed to nature | 2 sets | |
| 17 | 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 | |
| 18 | a form of personification giving human traits to nature | 2 sets | |
| 19 | this occurs when a character's emotional state parallels with the environment | 2 sets | |
| 20 | using the weather to mimic a character's emotions | 2 sets | |
| 21 | when an emotion or feeling is attached to something inanimate, particularly things in nature | 2 sets | |
| 22 | ascribing feeling to things | 2 sets | |
| 23 | when the author used weather to create mood or atmosphere in the story | 2 sets | |
| 24 | 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 | |
| 25 | giving human emotion to elements of nature | 2 sets | |
| 26 | when natural or inanimate objects are invested with living or human qualities. | 2 sets | |
| 27 | the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings | 2 sets | |
| 28 | a form of personal fiction giving human traits to nature | 1 set | |
| 29 | the application of ones emotions to nature | 1 set | |
| 30 | in lititure, the attribution of human feelings and characteristics to inanimate things | 1 set | |
| 31 | giving inanimate objects, or animals human feelings and emotions | 1 set | |
| 32 | a mistaken literature, the attributeof human feelings, characteristic to emanate things | 1 set | |
| 33 | in literature the attribution of human feelings and characteristics to inanimate things | 1 set | |
| 34 | in literature, the attribution of human feelings & characteristics to inanimate things. | 1 set | |
| 35 | represents a connection between inanimate natural objects and a character's thoughts or feelings | 1 set | |
| 36 | a representation of inanimate natural objects that ascribe to them human capabilities | 1 set | |
| 37 | attributing human passions to inanimate things | 1 set | |
| 38 | technique authors use, using the setting, or nature, to parallel/mirror the mood of a character or of the story | 1 set | |
| 39 | nature shares emotions | 1 set | |
| 40 | when nature mimics human characteristics | 1 set | |