"what is the word for when the weather reflects your mood"

You're big enough to get you own stamp. But thanks so much for helping

I was taught that it was pathetic fallacy. however, in my own understanding, pathetic fallacy is more like personification.

The correct term IS pathetic fallacy. Shakespeare did it all the time.
Example being that in Macbeth the sky went dark and it was windy and stormy after King Duncan's murder.

Pathetic Fallacy

That is the term on every literary devices/terms list I can find. It doesn't sound right, but Pathetic, relating to pathos and empathy and all that, fits the pathetic act of weather responding to the mood or atmosphere of the characters or events in a literary work.

One possibility is "Objective Correlative."

Its kind of like anthropomorfizing the weather.

amnesia ?

pathetic fallacy

It IS pathetic fallacy. This word has been misconceived to mean PERSONIFICATION, being partially lost in translation. For example, the rain in a scene with a girl who's mother has just died is used to show how the child is feeling. Trust me, I'm an actor. With Aspergers.

Pathetic Fallacy, I know it sounds strange but in English today we discussed it for the topic "conflict", baisically we watched the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan and spoke about how Steven Spealberg had used horrible, gritty weather during the war flashback to show how awful the mood was. -Pathetic Fallacy.

OBJECTIVE CORRELATE

So unfortunate that so many people misunderstood the question and acted as if you asked about "what is the condition when your mood is affected by the weather" or "What do you call it when the weather has a mood"...
Neither of those are what was asked though :-/
What is being asked is a word for the more Kundera-esque alignment of weather happening that matches your mood... and I know I've heard a term for this too... just can't recall it :-(

Thank you, dlowan, for a direct, helpful and accurate answer.

That was eleven years ago.

Blimey!

If dlowan was a real wabbit, she'd be a Civet by now.

You are most welcome!

"Anthropomorphism, or personification, is attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being. Examples include depicting deities with human form, creating fictional non-human animal characters with human physical traits, and ascribing human emotions or motives to forces of nature, such as hurricanes or earthquakes."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism

The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attributing of human emotion and conduct to all aspects within nature. It is a kind of personification that is found in poetic writing when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, when dogs laugh, or when rocks seem indifferent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy

I'm trying to title a painting after it, thought it was Verisimilitude, but the definition when I google doesn't work

The word y'all are looking for is "envirosymbiotic."


(Not really, I just made that **** up, sorry)

Maybe some word that came out of the Gaia theory, eh?



http://www.gaiatheory.org/overview/

Damn, I just noticed that this thread was started 11 years ago, and has had over 120,000 views. If aint nobody got the answer yet, well, then....

I believe you're looking for: "Anthropomorphism." Hope this helps (20 years later). -@theadamreeder

Pathetic Fallacy