What's the difference between personification and representation?

Personification


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
  • (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was a convert to Islam and the personification of Black Pride.
  • (2) And surviving that moment of iconoclasm early on 9 May , the personification of Labour’s failure.
  • (3) Alien limb sign includes failure to recognise ownership of one's limb when visual cues are removed, a feeling that one body part is foreign, personification of the affected body part, and autonomous activity which is perceived as outside voluntary control.
  • (4) This found its personification in the disappointing Ross Barkley, whose burst from near his area before an awry pass was indicative of his contribution throughout.
  • (5) Ahmed Wali Karzai , who was gunned down in his home in Kandahar by a bodyguard, was in many ways the personification of modern-day Afghanistan – corrupt, treacherous, lawless, paradoxical, subservient and charming.
  • (6) The abundant data indicate that the shamanistic priest, who was highly placed in the stratified society, guided the souls of the living and dead, provided for the transmutation of souls into other bodies and the personification of plants as possessed by human spirits, as well as performing other shamanistic activities.
  • (7) The presenters' personification of nursing leadership and management concepts, as well as the descriptions of specific "how to" strategies, provided a valuable ingredient for reinforcing the theoretical concepts.
  • (8) In the same breath, my body cannot bring itself to believe it is the personification of power, though it evidently is in any rational accountancy of social status.
  • (9) Nancy Pelosi , the Democratic minority leader, said Giffords was the "personification of courage".
  • (10) From this is abstracted the idea of 'father' both as a component of the self representation and as the personification of the urge towards continuing development.
  • (11) That potency was intensified by the media’s eagerness to style him as the personification of Isis malevolence.
  • (12) In a matter of days Erdoğan has become the personification of all the corrupt despotism and violence of the old Kemalist Turkey he was elected to sweep away.
  • (13) There is also a concern that she has become the personification of Burmese democracy and this is dangerous.
  • (14) Simplified to a yellow skull on a shrouded body curved in an S shape, thin, serpentine hands against the emaciated cheeks and covering its ears, the personification of unhappiness stretches its mouth open in a vertical oval, and screams.
  • (15) Hokhma too was a victim of what might be called the "study-hall syndrome" – when a phalanx of scholarly men elected to write the personification of female wisdom out of the centre and into the margins.
  • (16) This Mason was Mr Elocution, if you like, the personification of affectation and lingering insult or innuendo.
  • (17) Cardiff huffed and puffed in response but a top-notch save by Adrián at Fraizer Campbell's expense denied them equality and Mark Noble, the personification of dreadnought spirit, doubled the margin with a smart finish in added time.
  • (18) Mr Cooke himself even described the late BCCI chairman Agha Abedi as "the living personification of Uriah Heep".
  • (19) One critic labelled him the "personification of the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar new Britain".
  • (20) I'd completely remove the personification in terms of the celebration.

Representation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
  • (n.) That which represents.
  • (n.) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.
  • (n.) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.
  • (n.) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.
  • (n.) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.
  • (n.) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.
  • (n.) The state of being represented.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
  • (2) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (3) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
  • (4) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
  • (5) The predominant specific aberrations in gliomas were an over-representation of chromosome 7 (13 cases) and an under-representation of chromosome 10 (16 cases).
  • (6) The Fink-Heimer techniques were used to determine the neostriatal projections from cortical M1 and S1 physiologically identified representations of the forepaw.
  • (7) Electrophysiological methods were used to determine changes in the neural representation of the binocular visual field at the paired midbrain optic tecta and in the tectal projection of pairs of corresponding retinal loci at various developmental points between these ages.
  • (8) Additional research: Suzie Worroll, James Browning, Grace Nzita and Nicolas Niarchos How do you feel about the representation of women in British public life?
  • (9) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
  • (10) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
  • (11) The correlation is likely to reflect language representation.
  • (12) A second pattern of representation of body movements, the supplementary motor area (SMA), adjoined the rostromedial border of M-I.
  • (13) The shock death of the 65-year-old designer in Miami on Thursday has brought renewed focus on the chronic lack of female representation in the profession’s upper ranks in the UK.
  • (14) We compared only patterns of labeling resulting from injections into similar parts of the frequency representation in different fields to insure that observed differences in patterns of labeling did not simply reflect differences in the frequency representation at the injection sites.
  • (15) We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.
  • (16) Furthermore, the approach provides a nice graphical representation of the relationships between the PK-PD parameters and covariates.
  • (17) This white child had as his alter-ego, really as part of his self-representation, a black half of the self, personified as a black boy whom he fantasized to be his twin.
  • (18) Among the theoretical proposals put forward to account for the observed disorders, those relating to a disturbance of the action planning process and to that of the internal representation of context are compatible with the observed memory disorders.
  • (19) They also suggest that both the migration of cortical neurons on glia and the refinement of the mapping between the peripheral whisker field and its cortical representation may depend upon the distribution of substrate adhesion molecules.
  • (20) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.