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My high school English teacher taught us that "pathetic fallacy" was the attribution of feelings to nature. i.e. A great person dies, perhaps tragically, and it rains the day of the funeral. People perceive this as the heavens weeping for the dearly departed (pathos), a fallacy since nature has no feelings at all.
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