/lit/ - Literature

>>1835718
>>1835718
pathetic fallacy is the closest term i know

>>1835718
i love when writers do this. i never knew there was a term for it. a good way of subtly showing and not telling. instead of saying so and so's mood was ______ you go about describing things in a slight way that encourages the reader to feel this mood.

>pathetic fallacy, poetic practice of attributing human emotion or responses to nature, inanimate objects, or animals.

didn't know this.

>authorial intent refers to an author's intent as it is encoded in his or her work.

not bad. i'm learning on /lit/ today.

>>1835766
>>1835766
the best example and most commonly pointed out of this is whe the weather reflects the characters mood or the action. That's why i used it here

>>1835768
authorial intent is kind of self-explanative. and i never heard of pathetic fallacy.

that's cool. i've done the weather thing actually. i never knew there were terms for what i was doing, or my understanding of them. my log thanks you.

>>1835781

i wouldnt usually point out a spelling error but it seems as though you'd appreciate it rather than take annoyance.

its explanatory, not explanative.

>>1835784
>ex·plan·a·tive
adj.
Explanatory.

no, i don't mind. but technically either word works, right? self-explanatory is what i usually hear people say too.

>>1835781
>>1835781

that is no problem

>>1835801

when you use the suffix self-, you can only use explanatory.

>>1835814
and yet another thing i learn from /lit/. not sure why i said it that way. i think because i used the word explanative only about a half hour ago talking to a buddy from work.

>>1835821

im glad you learn things from lit. the only thing i learned last night was the end of the fucking book i'd just started reading (picture of dorian gray). so that was great.

>>1835813

>>1835814
>>1835814
>suffix self-
>suffix

wat.

>>1835827
>>1835827

see pic

>>1835834

**prefix

>>1835834
detaler cip

>>1835827
>>1835834
satago110 and brownbear!

the last time i had a talk about twin peaks here it was with you two. but it's no good today. i was supposed to leave work 5 minutes ago and so i've got to run. adios!

>>1835814
This guy was probably a troll. If he did indeed mean prefix, then you could self-serving, self-sufficient, self-efficacy, self-obsessed, self-satisfied, self-masturbatory, etc etc.

>>1835933

not a troll, im high and got suffix/prefix confused. and if you would have correctly gauged the context you'd know that i meant you can only have self-explanatory, not self-explanative.

thats that matter put to bed then.

>>1835850
>>1835850
Santago, there are many cures for a broken heart. But nothing quite like a trout's leap in the moonlight

>>1835856
>>1835856
dang, catch you soon though bro

Generally when you're reading something, the mood or attitude is conveyed through diction and detail. Assuming you are using third-person limited (which you should) anything the author says which depicts HOW the environment is perceived by a character is translated into that character's attitude. If you want emotion specifically, just make a short sentence like "Anon went berserk." and then go on to describe how his vision boiled into a pulsating red. And how all of his thoughts transformed into some clever metaphor about a bull or something.

>>1835856
>>1835961
I left work, took the subway and a trolley and a mile hike home, and here I am. Wife and kid are due back any second. They don't understand me like Bob does.

In fact, in keeping with this thread, I can tell you I tried to get the wyf to enjoy Twin Peaks, but her interest was the color of a 1989 computer monitor, and soon a magazine leaped into her hands, and my sharing became as the land and the sky...

dec troll notwithstanding, what OP is describing is symbolism.