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from Silva Rhetoricae:
personification
the counterfait in personation
Reference to abstractions or inanimate objects as though they had human qualities or abilities. The English term for prosopopeia or ethopoeia.
Examples
O beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
—Iago in Shakespeare's Othello 3.3.165-67
The insatiable hunger for imagination preys upon human life
—Samuel Johnson
personification
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