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How to spell personification

Personification is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.

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What it means: Attributing human traits to non-human things.

In a sentence: The cartoon showed personification by giving the sun a happy face and a voice.

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Same family: person, personified, personifying, metaphor, figurative. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Personification” comes from the Latin word “persona,” meaning “mask” or “character in a play,” combined with a suffix that turns it into a noun. It literally developed from the idea of giving a non-human thing a human ‘mask’ or role.

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