Personification is the process of using a person to exemplify a characteristic or nature in the form of a person. This is common literary practice dating back to ancient times, using analogies based on characters to describe wider issues, often in symbolic situations and children's moral tales. It's a common dramatic technique in theatre as a character definition, creating protagonists. |
Examples of Personification:
| Darth Vader: Star Wars personification of the 'dark side'. Snow White: Personification of the innocent heroine/victim Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz: personification of the innocent in a strange land Voltaire's L'Ingenue: The savage in the civilized world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification https://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/P/personification.htm https://www.edu.pe.ca/stjean/playing%20with%20poetry/Foy/personification.htm https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/personification.html |
