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    personification
    /pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/

    noun

    • 1. the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form: "the book provides a sustained account of how literary personification works"
    • 2. a figure intended to represent an abstract quality: "the knight is accompanied by two feminine personifications of vice"

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