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personification

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
personification figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are endowed with human qualities, e.g., allegorical morality plays where characters include Good Deeds, Beauty, and Death. John Ruskin termed sentimentalized, exaggerated personification the "pathetic fallacy." See also allegory ; apostrophe ; metonymy . Author not available, PERSONIFICATION. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Personifications of Death
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Personifications of Death Visitors to the Church of St. Nicholas ... personify death by giving it a humanlike form. Personification is used in this context as the mental transformation ... human characteristics. Formed in this way, death personifications can be considered culture-bound channels to transfer ... Read more
personification
The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English personification • noun  he is the personification of politeness synonyms : embodiment, incarnation, epitome, quintessence, essence, symbol, representation, image, portrayal, likeness, semblance. Read more

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Personification - Where Songs Come To Life
Canadian Musician; 11/1/2006; Linderman, James; 647 words ; ... Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary defines personification: per.son.i.fi.ca.tion noun 1: attribution ... INCARNATION. I first became aware of personification when I was just a little kid and my ... no spout, either. Ironically, personification later became one of my favourite metaphorical ... Read more
William Collins and personification (once again).(Essays)(Critical essay)
ANQ; 9/22/2007; Bergstrom, Carson; 4883 words ; ... figure of prosopopeia--that is, of personification. Eighteenth-century readers typically valued personification because it encouraged flights of ... both writer and reader. Indeed, personification's twofold function--it was both ... Read more
To Tell The Truth: Alma Speed Fox, personification of perseverance
New Pittsburgh Courier; 2/10/2001; 'Hop', Louis; 894 words ; To Tell The Truth: Alma Speed Fox, personification of perseverance In 1966, a Mississippi branch of the ... is to thank a Pittsburgh heroine, Alma Speed Fox, the personification of perseverance. (Louis "Hop" Kendrick is a weekly contributor ... Read more
THE HOLOCAUST OF TEXTS: GENOCIDE, LITERATURE, AND PERSONIFICATION
Comparative Literature; 1/1/2004; Vickroy, Laurie K; 1612 words ; THE HOLOCAUST OF TEXTS: GENOCIDE, LITERATURE, AND PERSONIFICATION. By Amy Hungerford. Chicago: The University of ... Finally, while Hungerford concludes that the personification of texts may allow a certain recovery of the lost ... Read more
The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification.(Literary Criticism)
Shofar; 1/1/2004; 115 words ; The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification, by Amy Hungerford. Chicago: University of Chicago ... culture. In this study, Amy Hungerford argues that personification has become pivotal to our understanding of both ... Read more
Cyriacus of Ancona and the revival of two forgotten ancient personifications in the Rector's Palace of Dubrovnik.
Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1996; Kokole, Stanko; 17265 words ; ... as well. And in fact, this unusual personification turns out to be a direct echo of one ... identifying inscriptions.(44) Moreover, this personification embodying the inherent wisdom of the ... Dubrovnik the name of an obscure classical personification was intentionally brought back to ... Read more
Personification of evil: Race-haters
New Pittsburgh Courier; 11/14/1998; 378 words ; Personification of evil: Race-haters Court proceedings recently involving separate racial incidents remind us just how severe race hatred has become ... Read more
AFL: Cahill the personification of Port Adelaide
AAP Sports News (Australia); 9/21/2004; 725 words ; AAP Sports News (Australia) 09-21-2004 AFL: Cahill the personification of Port Adelaide By Chris Lines ADELAIDE, Sept 21 AAP - Port Adelaide's former coach John Cahill may need to go through the pain ... Read more
You are the personification of yob Britain; THE JUDGE'S VERDICT.(News)
The Mirror (London, England); 5/10/2008; 354 words ; Byline: BY RICHARD SMITH A TEENAGE thug who beat up a couple as they walked home was told by a judge yesterday: You are the personification of yob Britain. Joel Herd, 18, was drunk and high on cannabis when he attacked Andrew Miller and wife Jane as they left ... Read more
Personification of medicine compromises therapy: when a patient transfers feelings onto a drug, side effects can be exacerbated and distress amplified.
Clinical Psychiatry News; 3/1/2006; Sherman, Carl; 741 words ; ... But even when treatment is purely pharmacologic, such personification may cause or exacerbate side effects, amplify distress ... who was addicted, or for whom medication was necessary. Personification may exacerbate, if not actually cause side effects--the ... Read more

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