vocabulary lesson

pathetic fallacy

 

–noun

the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings, as in the smiling skies; the angry sea.

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Origin:
coined by John Ruskin in Modern Painters Vol. III, Part IV (1856)




"It is an eerie night in new orleans,
with cloud cover and mirages on the horizon."
by Rebecca Rebouche