pathetic fallacy
Weather mirrors mood
Pathetic fallacy is the attribution of human emotions to nature or inanimate things, especially in literature: The angry clouds gathered overhead, The cheerful sun greeted the newlyweds.
The term was coined as criticism—the "fallacy" being that nature doesn't actually share our feelings—but the device remains common in poetry and prose.
Weather in fiction often mirrors characters' moods.
- rainWater dropping from clouds
- personificationAttributing humanity to non-humans
- stormSevere atmospheric disturbance
- howling windLoud, fierce moving air
- windAir current outdoors
dark clouds · animism · projection · anthropomorphism · literary device · cloud · melancholy · weeping willow · desolate · Wordsworth · Wuthering Heights · gothic novel · foreboding · brooding · fog · romanticism · metaphor · mood
- personificationpersonification, anthropomorphism, talking animals, talking trees, talking toys
- literary devicesmetaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration
- figurative languagemetaphor, simile, figure of speech, analogy, personification
- nature writingnature writing, Walden, nature poems, wilderness, nature journal
- Writing Techniquesmetaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, alliteration
- RuskinEagle's Nest
pathetic fallacyempiricism
Knowledge through observation
objectivism · positivism · anti-romanticism · cosmic indifference
pathetic fallacyscientific observation
Structured witnessing for research
pathetic fallacyclinical observation
Watching patients for symptoms
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