Pathetic Fallacy

A lesson to enable students to create emotion and atmosphere through language using the skill pathetic fallacy.

The lesson uses visual stimuli (clips from Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings) to facilitate students’ understanding of pathetic fallacy and how the weather/landscape reflects characters’ emotions and affects the audience.

This resource contains video links and resources to print for students. It also includes a written example of pathetic fallacy, a writing task for students to demonstrate their understanding of pathetic fallacy, and sentence stems and words banks for differentiation.