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personification 音标拼音: [pɚs ,ɑnəfək'eʃən] n. 拟人,人格化,拟人法 拟人,人格化,拟人法 personification n 1: a person who represents an abstract quality; " she is the personification of optimism" 2: representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature [ synonym: { personification}, { prosopopoeia}] 3: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. [ synonym: { personification}, { incarnation}] Personification \ Per* son` i* fi* ca" tion\, n. [ Cf. F. personnification.] 1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. -- C. Knight. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop[ oe] ia; as, the floods clap their hands. " Confusion heards his voice." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 31 Moby Thesaurus words for " personification": acting, aping, characterization, corporealization, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, incorporation, masquerade, materialization, metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, pantomime, pantomiming, performance, performing, personation, playing, portrayal, posing, reembodiment, reincarnation, substantiation, transmigration
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