Something Monstrous And An Oncoming Machine

This is not quite the Pathetic Fallacy:

"Brechdan Ironrede and his Grand Council...had put something monstrous in motion. Wind and surfbeat sounded all at once like the noise of an oncoming machine."
-Poul Anderson, Ensign Flandry IN Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 1-192 AT Chapter Eleven, p. 108.

In the Pathetic Fallacy properly so called:

Flandry would realize that something monstrous was in motion;

then the narrator would emphasize this for the reader by describing, e.g., the sound of an oncoming storm or the cry of a beast of prey;

thus, an external process would exactly parallel Flandry's inner reflections.

In Anderson's prose, such parallels sometimes seem as integral to the text as its grammar. In this case, p. 106 had already described booming breakers and a wind smelling of cinnamon - three senses: heard breakers; felt wind; smelled cinnamon. The sounds do not change but Flandry himself suddenly hears them differently. The concluding sentence of a paragraph often comments and completes in this way.