Ruskin's vehement rejection of prosopopoeia, under the dyslogistic name of the pathetic fallacy, is necessary to make way for a mode of allegory in which the literal facts, literally named, stand by catachresis for supposed spiritual realities which can be named in no other way." See Miller's "Catachresis, Prosopopoeia, and the Pathetic Fallacy: the Rhetoric of Ruskin," in Poetry and Epistemology, ed.

Descriptive words can be dyslogistic (negative), eulogistic (positive), or neutral.