2007-03-04 22:49:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Pathetic Fallacy - that's the one!! Thanks! Don't know where I got D from!
2007-03-04 23:02:13 · update #1
Pathetic fallacy.
2007-03-04 22:51:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
sigumend_f is correct.
Pathetic fallacy
This meaning of pathetic dates from 1598, "affecting the emotions, exciting the passions," from M.Fr. pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.)
from L.L. patheticus, from Gk. pathetikos "sensitive, capable of emotion,"
from pathetos "liable to suffer,"
verbal adj. of pathein "to suffer"
Pathetic Fallacy is a literary term first used by Ruskin and means the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects.
You see it frequently in poetry. In movies too. For example, when it rains when a character is miserable--weather showing sympathy to the character.
2007-03-05 21:51:14 · answer #2 · answered by maî 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called S.A.D, Seasonal Affective Disorder
2007-03-05 06:55:22 · answer #3 · answered by Mummy B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dull
2007-03-05 07:18:09 · answer #4 · answered by SidBridge 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you mean S. A. D? (Seasonal Affected Disorder)
When the lack of sunlight can lead to depression in a person?
2007-03-05 06:53:57 · answer #5 · answered by Meeeee! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well theres S.A.D. - Seasonal Affective Disorder.... but of course, that begins with an S!!
How about Depression?
2007-03-05 06:53:50 · answer #6 · answered by PrettyKitty 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dull?
2007-03-05 06:51:20 · answer #7 · answered by MuZZy5000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some possibilities: depressed, down, dismal, dank, dull, drippy.
2007-03-05 07:02:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can have a grey dull day,
This can mean moody
2007-03-07 19:19:22 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are just like the weather, changeable?
2007-03-05 06:57:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋