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Pathetic fallacy

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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 British cultural critic John Ruskin coined the term in Volume 3 of his work, Modern Painters (1856).

Pathetic fallacy - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Attribution of human emotion and conduct to non-human things John Ruskin at Glenfinlas, Scotland (1853–54), by John Everett Millais [ 1 ] 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

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