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* A description of an [[Thing|inanimate object]] as being a living [[person]] or [[animal]] as in: "The sun shone brightly down on me as if she were shining for me alone". In this example the sun is depicted as if capable of [[intent]], and is [[reference]]d with the pronoun "she" rather than "it".
 
* A description of an [[Thing|inanimate object]] as being a living [[person]] or [[animal]] as in: "The sun shone brightly down on me as if she were shining for me alone". In this example the sun is depicted as if capable of [[intent]], and is [[reference]]d with the pronoun "she" rather than "it".
 
* An outstanding example of a [[quality]] or [[idea]]: "He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative" (Ralph Ellison).
 
* An outstanding example of a [[quality]] or [[idea]]: "He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative" (Ralph Ellison).
* An [[Art|artistic]] representation of an abstract [[quality]] or [[idea]] as a [[person]], for example the four cardinal [[virtues]] or nine [[Muses]].
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* An [[Art|artistic]] representation of an abstract [[quality]] or [[idea]] as a [[person]], for example the four cardinal [[virtues]] or nine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muses Muses].
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 
* Anthropomorphism
 
* Anthropomorphism

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