Characterization vs. Personification — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Characterization and Personification
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Characterization
Characterization or characterisation is the representation of persons (or other beings or creatures) in narrative and dramatic works. The term character development is sometimes used as a synonym.
Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
The book provides a sustained account of how literary personification works
Characterization
The act or an instance of characterizing.
Personification
A figure intended to represent an abstract quality
The knight is accompanied by two feminine personifications of vice
Characterization
A description of qualities or peculiarities
A list of places of interest, with brief characterizations of each.
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Personification
The act of personifying.
Characterization
Representation of a character or characters on the stage or in writing, especially by imitating or describing actions, gestures, or speeches.
Personification
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).
Characterization
The act or process of characterizing.
Personification
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.
Characterization
The act or process of characterizing.
Personification
Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.
Characterization
A graphic or vivid verbal description;
Too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures
The author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland
The pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters
Personification
A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
Characterization
The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features;
The media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd
Personification
A literary device in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
Characterization
Acting the part of a character on stage; dramaticially representing the character by speech and action and gesture
Personification
An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.
Personification
The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop ia; as, the floods clap their hands.
Personification
A person who represents an abstract quality;
She is the personification of optimism
Personification
Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
Personification
The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
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