Whats the word for nature reflecting mood?

All google's giving me is loads of people saying 'pathetic fallacy' but I'm fairly sure thats not what I've looking for. Is it?

Eg. when something bad happens to a character and suddenly it starts pouring down with rain. Or the plot resolves in a good ending and the sun comes out.


Anyone know? I will give my humble rep to the bright spark.

EDIT: and if it is pathetic fallacy, please could someone explain?

To cappuccinoes and riotgrrl, I thougt pathetic fallacy was the description of nature as having human traits?

Like 'angry gale' or whistling wind'

That's personification :P

The definition of pathetic fallacy is personification though. Personification of inanimate objects to give them anthropomorphic tendancies.

Yes/No?

Yeah but thats not what I'm looking for.

I'm not describing the weather as a person

Its more a dramatic device.

You mean in those movies when the sky suddenly darkens and a storm blows when an evil object appears??You mean a word for this??

I suppose it is. It's when the character's environment reflects his or her feelings, so I suppose that's suggesting the environment has feelings too. I guess it depends on how the environment is described.

Well, really I'm referring to a play, so the environments not described at all. It just happens.

I can see how the environment could be given human attributes that way, by kind of sympathising with whatevers happening in the plot.

So its ok to use pathetic fallacy.