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:
For the formal concept in philosophy and logic, see formal fallacy. For other uses, see Fallacy (disambiguation). A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or wrong moves in the construction of an argument. A fallacious argument may be deceptive by appearing to be better than it really is.