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personification

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Personification  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  personification 
  n  1:  one  who  personifies  an  abstract  quality 
  2:  representing  an  abstract  quality  or  idea  as  a  person  or 
  creature  [syn:  {prosopopoeia}] 
  3:  the  act  of  attributing  human  characteristics  to  abstract 
  ideas  etc  [syn:  {incarnation}]




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