pathetic fallacy in English

noun
1
the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.
Of late he had a deeper understanding of pathetic fallacy as Ruskin had called it.

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1. It was all just like a pathetic fallacy.

2. His blunders of interpretation are due to what has been described as the " pathetic fallacy ".

3. The old illustrator never let his pupils fall for the pathetic fallacy, that empty barrels are lonely.

4. The third part completes the discussion of representation issue in this novel by exploring the pathetic fallacy in the representation of the surrounding world.

5. If one that England squad had the integrity to offer an explanation or apology for their pathetic fallacy World Cup campaign in South Africa, I don't care about any of it.

6. In other poems, instead of a binding tension, Anthropomorphosis (the "pathetic fallacy") turns nature into transcendental kitsch and disturbs even a simple and self-sustaining clarity of image; or a first-person reference intrudes, as in the title poem, in simplistic identification with nature.

7. The wood choppers are still evident, but the Bloodiness of Peter's martyrdom is the focus: blood spurts from his head, the blood from his chest stains his white scapular and pools on the ground, blood drips from his staff and the assassin's discarded spear and, in the lower right corner, in a visual pathetic fallacy, blood streams from a severed tree stump.