1) Avatar 2) Embodiment 3) Essence 4) Incarnation 5) Prosopopoeia
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- one who personifies an abstract quality
- representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
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an anthropomorphic figure of speech where the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a non-human form as if it were a person. William Blake's 'O Rose, thou art sick!' is an example, but not 'Oh Rose, you smashed up the Chevy again!'
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• (n.) The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. • (n.) 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.
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figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an abstract quality, animal, or inanimate object. An example is `The Moon doth ... [5 related articles]
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a device whereby an inanimate object is given a human quality. e.g. The coals settled comfortably in the fireplace. (Coal is normally regarded as inanimate/lifeless but here it is seen as settling like a human might settle into a chair.)
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A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, trai
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An anthropomorphic figure of speech where the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a non-human
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Per·son`i·fi·ca'tion noun [ Confer French
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; pr...
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Non-human objects, animals, forces of nature, or abstract ideas are represented with human qualities as if they were human beings. Usually used to emphasise the central meaning.
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Figure of speech whereby inanimate objects or abstractions are given human characteristics. In his poem Low Water Ted Hughes uses personification to describe a river e.g.
'She lolls on her deep couch. And a long thigh
Lifts from the flash of her silks.'
Personification is a form of metaphor. See also anthropomorphism.
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attribution of personality to an impersonal thing.
*England expects every man to do his duty. Lord Nelson
*Nunc te patria, quae communis est parens omnium nostrum, odit ac metuit et iam diu nihil te iudicat nisi de parricidio suo cogitare. Cicero, In Catilinam
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A form of writing where human characteristics are attributed to non-human things.
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A figure of speech that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, or represents an absent person as being present
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Personification is a kind of metaphor in which you describe an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms.
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Human traits assigned to an animal or inanimate object.
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a phrase that gives human thought and feeling to an abstract idea, being, or object.
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a form of metaphor in which language relating to human action, motivation and emotion is used to refer to non-human agents or objects or abstract concepts: the weather is smiling on us today; Love is blind.
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prosopopoeia noun representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
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Figure of speech or literary device in which animals, plants, objects, and ideas are treated as if they were human or alive (`Clouds chased each other across the face of the Moon`; `Nature smiled on their work and gave it her blessing`; `The future beckoned eagerly to them`). See also anthropomorphism. Personif...
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attributing human characteristics to something that is not human (a thing, an animal, or an abstraction).
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[SAT terms] someone who represents an abstract quality
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[6th grade words] attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
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[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
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attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
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