Pathetic fallacy
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title:
Pathetic fallacy
text:
The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. It is a kind of personification that occurs in poetic descriptions, when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent. The English cultural critic John Ruskin coined the term in the third volume of his work Modern Painters (1856).
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Attribution of human emotion and conduct to non-human things
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy
date created:
2003-05-15T14:51:21Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T05:26:14Z
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