personification
/pɚˌsɑ.nə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/ 名词 B2中文： 拟人、人格化形象
- A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification. · Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
- An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human. · The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.
- The process of creating such a representation: a literary device or other artistic method in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities. · You might search in vain if you go looking for personification in his works: his style was very concrete.· The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
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The lamp beat upon his face, and so intent was it and so still that it might have been that of a clear-cut classical statue, a personification of alertness and expectation.
Napoleon is the Mahomet of the West, and is worshipped by his commonplace but ambitious followers, not only as a leader and lawgiver, but also as the personification of equality.”
Oh, he is the exact personification of what I have been led to expect!
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