Why is pathetic fallacy called "pathetic fallacy"? Where did the name come from?
1 Answer
Mar 7, 2018
Originally from the Greek pathos: sadness or suffering, in this context, it has come to mean the experience of any human emotion.
Explanation:
pathetic fallacy is the attribution of a human emotion to something which can not feel such an emotion (thus the "fallacy" part).
For example:
