Meanings (ES + gloss)
personificación
A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
He might have sat for a personification of fear: if he moved, he seemed rather afraid of his own shadow following him too closely; if he laughed, he soon checked himself, quite ala…
metagoge • personificación • prosopopeya
A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
personificación
An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.
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