Personification
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Personification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.[1]
The term "personification" may apply to:
- The act of personifying.
- A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification: "He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative" (Ralph Ellison).
- An artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.
[edit] Similar figures of speech
The pathetic fallacy is the generalization of personification which applies to any description of inanimate objects or abstractions imbuing them with human-like traits. Anthropomorphism is a particular form of personification which gives such traits to tangible objects or natural phenomena. These are all allusive figures of speech called tropes.
Personification is not to be confused with prosopopoeia, which is the act of a writer or writer narrating as another person or some other object. An apostrophe is where one addresses a personified or anthropomorphized object.
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[edit] External sources
- Unknown, . "Personification". Poetry As We See It. 1 June 2003. ThinkQuest. 30 May 2008.
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