Personification

noun

Word Frequency: 1.1

Definitions

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

"Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism."

2.nounA literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.

"The writer used personification to convey her ideas."

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

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