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GM, In an English class there was a term describing how the weather in the story mirrored the charactor's mood...sunny/happy..cloudy/ morose.Does anyone know this term? Somehow Thomas Hardy was referenced. Thank you. {}s.
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This article calls it the "pathetic fallacy".
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Here is another good article on The Pathetic Fallacy in Far from the Madding Crowd.P.S. How to search the Internet : 1. Turn on computer. 2. Open the Internet. 3. Enter keywords into search engine. 4. Press enter. : )
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HL:
Be nice!
If you don't have a search word you can't search a dictionary, let alone the Internet.
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Hello, Kenneth, and welcome aBoard. Here is one of my favorite resources: reverse dictionary I use this regularly, because as Dave Barry said, "Once you hit 50, ... the nouns are the first to go".
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Great! Just when they had convinced me that my SADness was Seasonal Affective Disorder ( http://www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/27.cfm ), I find out that I'm really just pathetic after all. 
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Quote:
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself.
I am large. I contain multitudes.
(always good to see a Whitman quote by a fellow linguaphile)
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From the link: Hardy often uses weather as the "pathetic fallacy." This photograph in such a context might function similarly, as "our impressions of external things" receive a falseness produced by "violent feelings."
I'm not sure he or other authors only use it in this way though. When lightning splits the chestnut tree in Jane Eyre for exmaple, she and the reader can't but help see its relation to her personal predicament - is that fallacy? 'Pathetic fallacy is a loaded term and operates on a set of philosophical axioms of separateness that might be seen as a psychosis of alienation. One man's coincidence is another's sign and one's man plain sky another's crucible of the mind. Many authors have investigated this beyond the blanketing notion of 'pathetic fallacy'. The interplay between the (perceived) external and internal worlds cannot be written off with this one thin term.
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Dear all repliers...I so appreciate this discourse.....I feel happy and cozy because of you all; not just the weather this time..{}s. ken pk
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