a few personifications

[alpacinoutd]

By the way, do you see the difference between how personify and anthropomorphize are used?

- Mother Teresa personified charity.

- Motor vehicles don't really talk. Disney just anthropomorphized them in Cars.

I think personification is sort of about creating imagery. Anthropomorphization is about giving human traits to non-human objects.

[Charlie Bernstein]

I think personification is sort of about creating imagery. Anthropomorphization is about giving human traits to non-human objects.

Thanks. I just looked up personify.

The primary definition is the one I think of: use a person to represent a quality.

But the secondary definition is how you used it. It means the same thing as antrhopomorphize: assign human qualities to something that isn't human.

So even though I've never heard it used that way, you used it correctly.

Sorry! Now I know.

[emsr2d2]

Good point! My brain said "anthropomorphise" when I read the original post and I then failed to make any mention of it in my response.