Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Personification"
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) 1.7 (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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