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pathetic fallacy
n.

The attribution of human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature; for example, angry clouds; a cruel wind.

I wonder if "killer tornado" applies...?

-Tim

I would think so...

It sounds as though it is the same thing as personification, then.

Brazilian dude

It sounds more like a miserable failture.

Very like anthropomorphism only with inanimate, (if you can call a tornado inanimate) objects

mark

I grew up in tornado alley but we never called them killer tornadoes. (Not even after that interesting evening when we were one of the few families left in the neighborhood with a roof still attached to four walls, but I digress...)

I think that to get the full flavor of a "pathetic fallacy" the example should be either pathetic or fallacious, if not both. Something more along the lines of Killer Tomatoes.

-gailr

You continue to blow us away!