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== Works Consulted ==
== http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/personification==
 
 
'''Personification'''
''''''''Noun'''''
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#  A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
#  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.
#  Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea of a person.
 


* Chapin, Chester Fisher. ''Personification in Eighteenth Century English Poetry''. New York, New York: 1974.
* Chapin, Chester Fisher. ''Personification in Eighteenth Century English Poetry''. New York, New York: 1974.
* Paxson, James S. ''The Poetics of Personification''. Cambridge, England/ New York, New York: 1994.
* Paxson, James S. ''The Poetics of Personification''. Cambridge, England/ New York, New York: 1994.
* ''The American Heritage @Dictionary of the English Language,'' ''Fourth Edition'' Published by Houghton Mifflin Company Copyright @ 2000