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Imagery vs Personification - What's the difference?

imagery | personification |

As nouns the difference between imagery and personification

is that imagery is the work of one who makes s or visible representation of objects while personification is a person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

imagery

English

Noun

(wikipedia imagery) (imageries)
  • The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
  • Imitation work.
  • Images in general, or en masse.
  • (figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
  • The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
  • Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

    • personification

    English

    (wikipedia personification)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
    • Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
  • A figure of speech,in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
    • The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
  • An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
    • The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.