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a literary word to go with the literary quote =0) pathetic fallacy (puh-THET-ik FAL-uh- see) noun The attribution of human traits to nature or inanimate objects. [Coined by John Ruskin in 1856.] "A good metaphor should never be missed, and Hardie, a poet before she was a novelist, is alert, in a labored sort of way, to the possibilities of some fine pathetic fallacy. One passage, after a pointless bout of cruelty by Hannie, describes her black mood: `She felt rudderless and directionless, like the dead sheep the November rains had carried down the river. Day after day it had drifted up and down, up and down, moving swiftly away with the pull of the sea's ebbing tide, pushing back again as it rose. Bloated, a perch for the gulls. Until it snagged on some drowned tree and left off its journeying.'" Catherine Lockerbie, Green Unpleasant Land, New York Times Book Review, Dec 22, 2002. |
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is it sort of like personification? |
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yes EGGACTLY.....cept the literary word for it is pathetic fallicy! impressive per·son·i·fi·ca·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-sn-f-kshn) n. The act of personifying. A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification: “He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative” (Ralph Ellison). A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn. Also called prosopopeia. Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person |
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hehe i've heard of "post hoc fallacy" but the "pathetic fallacy" is new to me =) |
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my word of today: Jingoist a blustering patriot |
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i was totally thinking pathetic phalus when i saw that :x hahaha |
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That story sounds like the personification of Scotland; any Scots around that can verify my claim? ;) |
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Greatly explains Boards of Canada... :) |
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