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personification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prosopopoeia |
| Type of | trope, figure of speech, figure, image |
| Derivation | personify |
personification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | incarnation |
| Type of | embodiment |
| Derivation | personify |
personification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | soul, individual, mortal, someone, somebody, person |
| Has types | avatar, embodiment, incarnation, queen |
| Derivation | personify |
she is the personification of optimism.
Examples of personification
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In Antichrist, Gainsbourg was the personification of Von Trier's own depression.
From the guardian.co.uk
David Rath is a personification of EVERYTHING that is wrong with Czech politics.
From the economist.com
Rather, here was the personification of decency, principle and English fair play.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Instead Elizabeth Edwards was the personification of grace, optimism and courage.
From the abcnews.go.com
Barking away, he is the personification of the petty bourgeois at its most petty.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
In the Rigveda, Saraswati is a river as well as its personification as a goddess.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Mamay eventually became the national personification of Ukraine and Ukrainians.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The wolf, the personification of the river, the temple of Vesta, are all present.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He'll remain that crusty, curmudgeonly personification of old-school baseball.
From the freep.com
- A person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism"
- The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- (personify) body: invest with or as with a body; give body to
- (personify) embody: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
- (personify) attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"
- Personification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.
- (Personifies) Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to animals or non-living things, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. ...
- (personify) To be an example of; to have all the attributes of; To create a representation of an abstract quality in the form of a literary character
- A figure of speech in which things or abstract ideas are given human attributes: dead leaves dance in the wind, blind justice.
