What is Personification? Is it just like ,"How doth the Crocodile" poem?
2007-05-01 12:03:21 · 8 answers · asked by Mushroom Maniac 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Satan is the personification of the concept of Evil created be the Hebrew God. An actor can become the personification of an Authors scripted Murderer. A police officer is a personification ot the law.
An ugly, poxed, human hunched over a keyboard and slobbering would be the personification of the act of trolling a forum.
2007-05-01 13:16:49 · answer #1 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A personification is a concept or phenomena of some sort represented as a person.
The ancient Greeks did alot of this, sleep becomes a man-like god named Sleep (Hypnus) who visits men, as does Death (Thanatus), Wisdom (Metis), the Rainbow (Iris), the Sun (Helius), etc.
The Romans did the same thing with Love (Cupid), etc.
Here is a list of some ancient personifications:
http://www.theoi.com/Cat_Daimones.html
You find much the same thing in Christian art -- Faith, Hope, Charity and the other virtues were portrayed as beautiful young women dressed in long white robes.
Even in the Bible there are Angels which personify different things: Thanatus in Revelations is the angel of death, and Apollon the angel of plague. And of course the Devil is the personification of all evil.
We use a few personifications these days, such as when we imagine Death as a skeletal man in a black hood, or we refer to Mother Earth (as if she were a woman), of old Father Time. Similarly you could say Santa Claus is the personification of Christmas festivities.
2007-05-01 23:26:28 · answer #2 · answered by Thalia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personification is when you give human qualities to an object.
ex.
The cloud ate the city
Thatz the same thing the other girl said but oh well XD
2007-05-01 12:12:35 · answer #3 · answered by Steven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personification is giving human qualities to objects or animals.
Ex. The train licked up the valley
2007-05-01 12:07:06 · answer #4 · answered by Giedre 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personification is in literature where the author gives non-human objects human traits/qualitys.
2007-05-01 13:24:34 · answer #5 · answered by Flash 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personification is when you give human qualities to the innanimate objects, like "sea groaned like an old man".
2007-05-02 02:19:51 · answer #6 · answered by IggySpirit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A personification is the embodiment of an idea.
2007-05-01 12:08:04 · answer #7 · answered by Seth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is giving a nonliving object human-like characteristics.
2007-05-01 12:11:35 · answer #8 · answered by Ally 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋