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单词 personification
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personification


per·son·i·fi·ca·tion

P0210600 (pər-sŏn′ə-fĭ-kā′shən)n.1. The act of personifying.2. 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).3. 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. Also called prosopopeia.4. Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.

personification

(pɜːˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən) n1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas, etc, as for literary or artistic effect2. (Art Terms) the representation of an abstract quality or idea in the form of a person, creature, etc, as in art and literature3. a person or thing that personifies4. a person or thing regarded as an embodiment of a quality: he is the personification of optimism.

per•son•i•fi•ca•tion

(pərˌsɒn ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən)

n. 1. the attribution of a human nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure. 2. the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art. 3. an embodiment, as of a quality: He is the personification of tact. [1745–55]

personification

the attribution of personality to an inanimate object or abstraction, as “the table tripped me.” Also called prosopopoeia. — personificative, adj.See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices

personification

1. The representation of something as if it were a person or had human qualities, such as in “Death came and took her.”2. Giving objects or concepts a personal living form.
Thesaurus
Noun1.personification - a person who represents an abstract qualitypersonification - a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism"individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"avatar, embodiment, incarnation - a new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning"queen - something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
2.personification - representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creatureprosopopoeiafigure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
3.personification - the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.incarnationembodiment - giving concrete form to an abstract concept

personification

noun embodiment, image, representation, recreation, portrayal, incarnation, likeness, semblance, epitome Janis Joplin was the personification of the '60s female rock singer.

personification

nounA physical entity typifying an abstraction:embodiment, exteriorization, externalization, incarnation, manifestation, materialization, objectification, personalization, substantiation, type.Rhetoric: prosopopeia.
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personification


personification,

figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are endowed with human qualities, e.g., allegorical morality plays where characters include Good Deeds, Beauty, and Death. John Ruskin termed sentimentalized, exaggerated personification the "pathetic fallacy." See also allegoryallegory,
in literature, symbolic story that serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface. The characters in an allegory often have no individual personality, but are embodiments of moral qualities and other abstractions.
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figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present. The term is derived from a Greek word meaning "a turning away," and this sense is maintained when a narrative or dramatic thread is broken in
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; metonymymetonymy
, figure of speech in which an attribute of a thing or something closely related to it is substituted for the thing itself. Thus, "sweat" can mean "hard labor," and "Capitol Hill" represents the U.S. Congress.
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Personification

 

(prosopopoeia), a form of metaphor that attributes human traits or traits of any living being to inanimate objects and phenomena. Three gradations of personification are distinguished, depending on how it is used in literary language.

(1) Personification can be a figure of speech found in expressive language, connected with “the instinct for personification in living languages” (A. Beletskii) and with the rhetorical tradition, for example: “the heart speaks,” “the river plays.”

(2) Personification in folk poetry and in individual lyric poems (examples are those of H. Heine and S. Esenin) can be a metaphor close in its role to psychological parallelism: the life of the surrounding world, especially of nature, is made to share in the hero’s inner life and is endowed with human attributes. The comparison of the natural to the human on which such personifications are based goes back to a way of thinking found in myths and fairy tales, with the important difference that in mythology the “face” of an element is revealed through “kinship” with the human world. For example, the relationship between Uranus, the Sky, and Gaea, the Earth, is explained by comparing it to a marriage. In folkloric and poetical works of later eras, on the other hand, the “face” and inner feelings of man are revealed through the personified manifestations of nature and the elements.

(3) Personification can be a symbol directly connected with a central literary concept and developing from a system of individual personifications. For example, the poetic prose of A. P. Chekhov’s novella The Steppe is permeated with personifications as metaphors or similes: the “handsome” poplar is oppressed by its solitude, the withered grass “sings” a mournful song, and so on. Thus the resulting ultimate personification is the “face” of the steppe that is aware of the vain loss of its riches, heroism, and inspiration. This “face” is a polysemantic symbol connected with the writer’s thoughts about his native land, life’s meaning, and the flight of time. This type of personification approaches myth in its generalized meaning, “objectivity,” and relative dissociation from the narrator’s psychological state yet does not cross the theoretical line that always separates conventional forms of art from mythology.

REFERENCE

Beletskii, A. “Izobrazhenie zhivoi i mertvoi prirody.” In his book Izbrannye trudy po teorii literatury. Moscow, 1964.

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personification


  • noun

Synonyms for personification

noun embodiment

Synonyms

  • embodiment
  • image
  • representation
  • recreation
  • portrayal
  • incarnation
  • likeness
  • semblance
  • epitome

Synonyms for personification

noun a physical entity typifying an abstraction

Synonyms

  • embodiment
  • exteriorization
  • externalization
  • incarnation
  • manifestation
  • materialization
  • objectification
  • personalization
  • substantiation
  • type
  • prosopopeia

Synonyms for personification

noun a person who represents an abstract quality

Related Words

  • individual
  • mortal
  • person
  • somebody
  • someone
  • soul
  • avatar
  • embodiment
  • incarnation
  • queen

noun representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

Synonyms

  • prosopopoeia

Related Words

  • figure of speech
  • trope
  • image
  • figure

noun the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc

Synonyms

  • incarnation

Related Words

  • embodiment
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