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:
And more than anything, they demolish the pathetic fallacyâthat the world weeps as we do. The commission of the pathetic fallacy is the judges greatest danger. He has not 'the pathetic fallacy'; but he approaches it very nearly at times. Before the sublimity of this insight, all forms of the pathetic fallacy seem cheap and artificial. Pessimism is the pathetic fallacy reduced to medicinal formula.