personification
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per·son·i·fi·ca·tion
/ pərˌsänəfiˈkāshən/
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n.
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
∎
a figure intended to represent an abstract quality:
the design on the franc shows Marianne, the personification of the French republic.
∎ [in sing.]
a person, animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing:
he was the very personification of British pluck and diplomacy.
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The Poetics of Personification.
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...this perspective is Leo Spitzer). Personification, in this view, is a gross disfigurement...one-dimensionalizing the animate, personification blatantly violates the normal and...understanding the extraordinary trope of personification, the trope above all that "speaks...
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Emma Stafford and Judith Herrin, eds. Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...concept of personification in Greek antiquity...Shapiro's Personifications in Greek Art...varying modes of personification; Part II. Personification in myth and...Looking at personifications; and Part...
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Ways of personifying. (personification in literature)
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...kinship with mainstream personification. This typology will be...s distinction between personification the trope and personification the figure, which separates a whole group of personifications better classified as metaphors...
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Personification - Where Songs Come To Life
Magazine article from: Canadian Musician; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...technically not an actual personification but I felt it really...either of these true personifications or just manifestations of personifications? Who knows ... I...Song" may also not be personification, but it metaphorically...
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Dickens and personification.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Dickens Quarterly; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...realism was his frequent use of personification. (1) What figurative device...less conducive to realism than personification, so deeply connected to unrealistic...aware of his fanciful use of personification in his fiction, he also used...
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Mapping the mind and the body: on W.H. Auden's personifications.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Style; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...via metaphor and personification in particular...s mind and body personifications strange, however...often associate with personification. Personification...has suggested, personifications such as Sin or Death...The view that personification as a poetic device...
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William Collins and personification (once again).(Essays)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...to the twofold role of personification in the title of his work...as it were, of the personification. Cooper, for example...surprisingly, Collins's use of personifications has rightly attracted its...description and delineation of a personification, followed by analysis...
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What lies within: Ego states and other internal personifications
Magazine article from: Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...nature of the internal personifications that are the focus of this...discussion concerning internal personifications enabled the categorisation...concerning the nature of each personification and its frequency of occurrence...DISCUSSION OF INTERNAL PERSONIFICATIONS Hypnotherapists encounter...
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Personification in the Greek world; from antiquity to Byzantium.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 490 words
; 0754650316 Personification in the Greek world; from antiquity...Publications 7 NX650 Finding personification to be a ubiquitous pattern of...Greece, Eros at the Parthenaea, personification of the Iliad and Odyssey in Hellenistic...
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The personification of HVAC.(opinions: VIEWS AND INSIGHTS FROM THE EDITORIAL STAFF AND GUEST COLUMNISTS)
Magazine article from: Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News; 7/31/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...particularly when it comes to the topic of personification. IT STARTS ON THE WALL We are entering...as a joke. But don't laugh--personification may be upon us without our knowing...Can you say Peeping Tom? I think personification of HVAC equipment is pretty cool...
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Personifications of Death
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Personifications of Death...humanlike form. Personification is used in...way, death personifications can be considered...death. The personifications of younger...masculine. Personification of death...
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personification
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
personification. Representation of a human figure with attributes to suggest an abstraction, such as Hope with Anchor. Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (1593) was an important source-book for personification. Bibliography Lampugnani (ed.) & Dinsmoor (1986)
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PERSONIFICATION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
PERSONIFICATION. In RHETORIC , discourse in which animals, plants, elements of nature, and abstract ideas are given human attributes...
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Winter
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...Jobes, 378] Ded Moroz personification of winter; “...Astrology: Hall, 139] Hiems personification; portrayed as old and decrepit...LLEI , I: 322] Jack Frost personification of winter. [Pop. Culture...
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Lust
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...Jerusalem Delivered ] Aselges personification of lasciviousness. [Br. Lit...Brothers Karamazov ] Caro loathsome hag; personification of fleshly lust. [Br. Lit.: The...Penitent, Espy , 129] Malecasta personification of wantonness. [Br. Lit.: Faerie...
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