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 pathetic fallacy is a figure of speech in which the natural world (or some part of it) is treated as though it had human emotions. The phrase âweeping willowâ is an example of the pathetic fallacy, since it suggests that this tree is sad or dejected, which of course is not true â it just looks that way to our eyes.