About The Word Personification
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Personification
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What's The Definition Of Personification?
[n] the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
[n] representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature [n] a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism" Synonyms | Synonyms for Personification: incarnation | prosopopoeia Related Terms | Find terms related to Personification: acting | aping | characterization | corporealization | dumb show | embodiment | enacting | enactment | imitation | impersonation | incarnation | incorporation | masquerade | materialization | metempsychosis | mimesis | mimicking | mimicry | miming | pantomime | pantomiming | performance | performing | personation | playing | portrayal | posing | reembodiment | reincarnation | substantiation | transmigration See Also | avatar | embodiment | embodiment | figure | figure of speech | human | image | incarnation | individual | mortal | person | queen | somebody | someone | soul | trope Personification In Webster's Dictionary \Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
personnification.]
1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. --C.
Knight.
2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or
abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with
personality; prosopop?ia; as, the floods clap their hands.
``Confusion heards his voice.'' --Milton.
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