personification

noun

1. the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

Synonym: incarnation

2. representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

Synonym: prosopopoeia

3. a person who represents an abstract quality

e.g. she is the personification of optimism

1. 体现某种品质（或特点）的人；典型；化身
If you say that someone is the personification of a particular thing or quality, you mean that they are a perfect example of that thing or that they have a lot of that quality.

e.g. Janis Joplin was the personification of the '60s female rock singer...
贾尼斯·乔普林是20世纪60年代摇滚女歌手的代表。
e.g. He was usually the personification of kindness.
他通常都很和善。

2. 拟人化；象征
A personification of something abstract is its representation in the form of a person.

personification

e.g. ...personifications of the attributes of Justice, Prudence and Truth.
正义、审慎和真理的化身

1. 擬人法：climax) 第七节 平行结构(Parallelism) 第八节 转喻/换喻(Metonymy) 第九节 提喻法/借代(Synecdoche) 第十节 拟人法(Personification) 第十一节 委婉手法(Euphemism) ......第三篇 阅读理解第四篇 翻译第五篇 写作作者介绍吴中东教授,

2. 拟人;化身;人格化：personality 个性;人格;品格 | personification 拟人;化身;人格化 | personnel carrier 操作人员运输车