Thesaurus / personification
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If anything, Sebastian seemed to be the personification of anxiety — an obsessive thought circling the mind on a loop.
MY DOCTOR TOLD ME TO GET A DOG, BUT I COULDN’T. MEET MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FISH.WILL DOWDOCTOBER 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTWith “no-good dirty Commies” decommissioned since the 1990s, screenwriters and studio executives tried their best to find convincing personifications of pure evil that would not perpetuate noxious stereotypes or hoary cliches.
WHILE HOLLYWOOD LOOKED FOR PERFECT VILLAINS, THEY WERE HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHTANN HORNADAYJANUARY 15, 2021WASHINGTON POSTChaucer probably found this name precisely where he found his personification of Pity, viz.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERI had at first thought it might be "rumorous eyes;" but the personification would then be wanting.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 192, JULY 2, 1853VARIOUSCyrano, who put to flight one hundred men, could not be expected to fear a person, much less a personification.
CYRANO DE BERGERACEDMOND ROSTANDThen she moved away to the music, an exquisite figure, the personification of all that was alluring in her sex.
THE DOUBLE FOURE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMWhile some are held up as models of virtue, others may be regarded as the very personification of evil.
CHARLES DURANTHE AUTHOR OF THE WALDOSThe distorted god, being a great admirer of the personification of wisdom, demanded Minerva in marriage.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMANIt wears (let the violent personification be pardoned) a hanging lip, and a wrinkle in abeyance, and an eye in suspense.
CERES' RUNAWAYALICE MEYNELLHe was always hunting down some new personification, and when he had got it, adding it to the list he kept.
QUESTIONABLE SHAPESWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSWORDS RELATED TO PERSONIFICATION
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
- apotheosis
- archetype
- cast
- collection
- comprehension
- conformation
- embracement
- encompassment
- epitome
- example
- exemplar
- exemplification
- expression
- exteriorization
- externalization
- form
- formation
- incarnation
- inclusion
- incorporation
- integration
- manifestation
- matter
- objectification
- organization
- personalization
- personification
- prosopopoeia
- quintessence
- realization
- reification
- structure
- substantiation
- symbol
- systematization
- type
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- integration
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- matter
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- personalization
- personification
- prosopopoeia
- quintessence
- realization
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- structure
- substantiation
- symbol
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- quintessence
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- substantiation
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- systematization
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- collection
- comprehension
- conformation
- embracement
- encompassment
- epitome
- example
- exemplar
- exemplification
- expression
- exteriorization
- externalization
- form
- formation
- incarnation
- inclusion
- incorporation
- integration
- manifestation
- materialization
- matter
- objectification
- organization
- personalization
- personification
- prosopopoeia
- quintessence
- realization
- reification
- structure
- substantiation
- symbol
- systematization
- type
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