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hi there students personify personified personification well to personify personification is well the first level is to give animals or inanimate objects human characteristics to anthropomorphize them okay so I'm real fan of Aesop's fables and in these the animals control for example there's lamb baby sheep on top of high wall and it's insulting wolf which is down at the bottom and he's being really rude to him and the wolf says come down and say that here and the moral says that it's easy to be brave at distance but in Aesop's fables the animals can't all different animals have different characters for example the Fox and the wolf are represented as bad people the donkey is represented as stupid person means somebody who's not intelligent the lamb is represented as some something somebody innocent child the baby ok so this is the first level of personification in literature or are they go maybe step further and they describe situations or feelings or emotions as person so for example death is normally personified as skeleton in black carrying sign or maybe in art love is personified by baby with wings that would be or maybe beautiful woman so love is personified by picture of beautiful woman but guess would be Venus imagine there was drought in country it didn't rain for long time and this is followed by farming you could personify this situation by saying it's shopkeeper refusing to give credit to his customers okay so maybe its nature refusing to give rein to the people on earth and therefore food but the shopkeeper the people go hungry because they can't buy food from all you could personify beauty as virtuoso violinist playing the most perfect music the most perfect of melodies we also use this word personified meaning that person is perfect example of certain quality so my friend John is honesty personified so he's the perfect example of honesty some people think that mr. Trump is the devil personified others think he is an angel personified think he thinks he's God as Sonic my aunt is the personification of patience she is patience personified so she's patience her character describes patience mr. Scrooge account to by Charles Dickens in Christmas carol is meanness personified so is character who is personifying meanness he shows all the characteristics of lack of generosity okay so to personify is to give human characteristics to animate so to inanimate objects or animals or to describe situation or feeling or an emotion as person okay so these are similes and metaphors and then we use this phrase personified to mean this person is perfect example of this quality so clearly the origin comes from person persona which is Latin so what about formality think this is slightly formal think you could use the phrase he's the devil personified in an informal conversation but to personify personified this sounds better in literary context if you were writing descriptive essay or something like that or maybe in more formal document so better for something more formal you could use it informally but be more careful so there you go personified personified personification if you enjoyed the video give it rating subscribe to my channel and I'll see you soon bye for now personify personified the sonification