The weather in this images suggests that the

person is feeling…. (list 5 adjectives)

Learning Objective: I will understand Pathetic
Fallacy and use it in my own writing

I will be able to link emotion and weather

appropriately and effectively
I will be able identify and describe the effects of
pathetic fallacy
I will be able to use pathetic fallacy in my own
writing creatively and appropriately
 Pathetic Fallacy
This is when the weather or
environment mirrors the mood.
In text for example: ‘smiling skies’, ‘angry winds’
The man feels angry possibly crying, so the weather is pouring rain and thundery.
The children are playful/happy, the environment is relaxed and gentle
What are the emotions? What is the weather/environment?
If this image was described
in a book….what would you
expect the characters to be
feeling?
If this image was described
in a book….what would you
expect the characters to be
feeling?
How is Victor Frankenstein feeling? How can you
tell? (Frankenstein, Chapter 5)
Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and
discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of
Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated
the sixth hour. The porter opened the gates of the court,
which had that night been my asylum, and I issued into
the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought
to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the
street would present to my view. I did not dare return to
the apartment
. which I inhabited, but felt impelled to
hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured
from the black and comfortless sky.
If you had to look back over today, what type of
weather would your day be?
Decide on the emotion you want to portray in
your work. (Anger/ fury/ hopelessness/ happiness/
loneliness)

Write a brief paragraph, like Victor Frankenstein, using Pathetic

Fallacy.

The sky looked…

Clouds formed ahead like…
 Self assessment
Which one did you achieve?
I will be able to link emotion and weather
appropriately and effectively
I will be able identify and describe the effects of
pathetic fallacy
I will be able to use pathetic fallacy in my own
writing creatively and appropriately