Personification

//pɚˌsɑ.nə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən//

"Personification" in a Sentence (10 examples)

He is the personification of selfishness.

Copernicus turned from a person into a personification.

Tom is the personification of an inferiority complex.

He's seen as the personification of evil.

Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.

He might have sat for a personification of fear: if he moved, he seemed rather afraid of his own shadow following him too closely; if he laughed, he soon checked himself, quite alarmed at the sound.

De Coude was the personification of coolness—was he not the best shot in France?

The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.

You might search in vain if you go looking for personification in his works: his style was very concrete.

The writer used personification to convey her ideas.

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