City Demographics. Des Moines is a mostly residential community that it situated along Puget Sound midway between Seattle and Tacoma in Washington state. The population as of April 1, 2010, was 29,673 and was the 41st largest city in the state. It also was the 12th largest city in King County.
Pathetic fallacy is a type of literary device whereby the author ascribes the human feelings of one or more of his or her characters to nonhuman objects or nature or phenomena. It is a type of personification, and is known to occur more by accident and less on purpose. Example:
The fact is that they differ in their function. Pathetic fallacy is a kind of personification that gives human emotions to inanimate objects of nature for example referring to weather features reflecting a mood.or example, the sentence âThe somber clouds darkened our moodâ is a pathetic fallacy as human attributes are given to an inanimate object of nature reflecting a mood. But, âThe sparrow talked to usâ is a personification because the animate object of nature âsparrowâ is given the human quality of âtalkingâ.