Personification meaning

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Personification is giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas.

An author describing the sun smiling on a field of flowers is an example of personification.

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A figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person.
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Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.

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A personifying or being personified.
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A person or thing thought of as representing some quality, thing, or idea; embodiment; perfect example.

He is the personification of honesty.

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A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn.
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The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.

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Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.
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The act of personifying.
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A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
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A figure of speech, prosopopoeia, in which an inanimate object or an abstraction is given human qualities.

The writer used personification to convey her ideas.

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Origin of personification

Personification Sentence Examples

  • He was the personification of evil.

  • She is the personification of the earth suffering from drought, on which the fertilizing rain descends from heaven.

  • Her bright and airy living room decor is the personification of spring.

  • It was the personification of an abstract idea.

  • PLUTUS, in Greek mythology, son of Iasion and Demeter, the personification of wealth.

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