personification

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The act of personifying.

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A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

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A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn.

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Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.

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The act of personifying; specifically, in rhetoric, a figure of speech, or a species of metaphor, which consists in representing inanimate objects or abstract notions as endued with life and action, or possessing the attributes of living beings; prosopopœia: as, “the floods clap their hands,” “the sun rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race” “the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing,”etc.

noun

Embodiment; impersonation.

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In art, the representation in the form of a person of something abstract, as a virtue or vice, or of an aggregation, as a race or nation, a body of doctrines, etc.

noun

The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.

noun

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop�ia.

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A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.