0 If someone personifies a particular quality, they are a perfect example of that quality. -- uosabiać
The faculty of vision was represented in a visible emblem of a figure from myth who personified a conceptual image.
I personified that very star, tumbling and sizzling with bits of my being spread out over the green foliage.
Men have often personified language as a woman.
They are cartoon-like versions of the animal: personified, embellished and layered with cultural symbolism.
In emblem books, abstract concepts are personified by a person, typically a woman, whose costume and attributes are explained in an accompanying text.
I argue that, once language use is personified in this way, the value of language is naturalized in the attributes of persons.
Figures personifying ecclesia usually include a building or other architectural detail in the setting.
After all, personified abstractions are "never quite human"; they often represent subordinate quantities contained in the human mind.
