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Today's word cites pathetic fallacy with this meaning:
>The attribution of human traits to nature or inanimate objects.
[Coined by John Ruskin in 1856.]<
But I'm not familiar with this term. I've always used, heard, and been taught personification as the proper term for this.
Has anyone else ever heard pathetic fallacy used to describe traits of personification?
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