Definizione monolingua

personification

personification (plural personifications)

1. A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

   Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.

2. A figure of speech, prosopopeia, in which an inanimate object or an abstraction is given human qualities.

   The writer used personification to convey her ideas.

3. An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

   The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.

Definizione dizionario personification

	personificazione
	artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

Altri significati:

figure of speech

person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea

An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human

A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

(rhetoric) A figure of speech, prosopopeia, in which an inanimate object or an abstraction is given human qualities.