What is personification?

Personification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.

• What is an entity metaphor?

Lakoff, G. and Johnson 1980 33–34

Mish 1991 878

Context for this page:

• Concept module: personification
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): P
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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