Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 7 AIL 0642 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pathetic Fallacy
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The idea
The pathetic fallacy attributes human feeling to nature, particularly where the weather matches a character's mood. The glossary gives it no headword. It is a narrowed kind of personification, and the exam may offer both, in which case the narrower term is the better answer.
In practice
Nature made to share a mood.
Where people slip
A narrowed personification.
Your place on the trail
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