What is pathetic fallacy?

Pathetic fallacy is a literary technique in which human emotions are personified in inanimate objects, typically in weather. For example in a section of Macbeth it is a particularly stormy night, the thunder and lightening personifing the evil of the play, or it perhaps exhibits a more celestial reaction to the deeds carried out by Macbeth and the rest fo the characters.

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