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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a personification" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the literary device where human qualities are attributed to non-human entities or abstract concepts.
Example: "In the poem, the author uses a personification of the wind, describing it as whispering secrets through the trees."
Alternatives: "a humanization" or "an anthropomorphism".
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"This is a personification of the user".
Albion is England, a personification of this island.
"Cancer" itself is a personification — well, a crustaceanification.
For herself, she said, her signature flagrant female is "a personification of painting itself".
Probably originally a personification of the ritual invocation (Iakch' ō Iakche), Iacchus was variously identified.
It's not that we need to think of him as a personification of metre.
At other times she is simply a personification of the water itself.
The developers wanted to use him as, essentially, a personification of the adult gamer.
She becomes a symbol, almost a personification, of ruthless manipulation, a sort of presiding evil genius.
Similarly, in the Javanese puppet theatre, a grotesque giant is a personification of the destructive principle, while an elegantly elongated local deity is a personification of the constructive principle.
His character as a generous patron of literature has made his name a personification of such activities.
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