Personification

Accepting this statement, the actions of these witnesses here described can be explained only by the figure of speech known as Personification, by which it is proper, under certain conditions, to attribute life, action, and intelligence to inanimate objects.

The Revelation Explained 1913

Personification of the surroundings or objects doesn't show me how the character feels -- as in, put me inside of his or her head -- it tells me how the author wants me to think the character feels.

Word Repetition and Sundry marshallpayne1 2010

It is perhaps even more urgent that we recognize 'Control' and 'Natural v Human-Made' and 'Personification' and all the specific risk perception factors Slovic et.al. have labeled, if we want to make more thoughtful, and healthier, decisions, about risks to our health and safety.

David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011

Personification -- A risk represented by a name or a face (the starving child, a dead soldier in a flag-draped coffin) affects us more powerfully than a risk that may be much larger but is only represented by impersonal numbers ("millions of starving children", statistics of battle deaths).

David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God [good], and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ [the Personification of the Principle ].

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God [good], and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ [the Personification of the Principle ].

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God [good], and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ [the Personification of the Principle ].

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God [good], and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ [the Personification of the Principle ].

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

One of the ten strategies employed by billionaire owner and philanthropist Ty Warner to market his beanie baby product is "Personification."

Yvonne R. Davis: TY Dolly Store, if You Didn't Get the Memo From First Lady M.O. - Don't Try to Play her Girls! 2009

Plaque with the Virgin Mary as a Personification of the Church, carved 800–875

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