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This was one of the first challenges I voted on, since at the time I had no camera, and one in which I found most people had no idea what a personification really was.
1)Personification is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas).
For example: The window winked at me. The verb, wink, is a human action. A window is a non-living object.
2)Personification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.[1]
The term "personification" may apply to:
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. An artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.
Examples:
Family
Shunned
And most importantly a personification is NOT a found face.... Lincoln on a potato chip, the Virgin Mary in burn toast.
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