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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Personification"”.
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Personification of Death
… of this study was to determine the primary personifications of death as perceived by college students. One hundred fifteen students from private and public institutions of higher learning were invited to participate in the study. Surveys from one hundred nine were useable. The questionnaire …
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Subjectified : personification as a design strategy in visual communication
… representation for such data, which I call Personification of Information. This alternative form of data visualization incorporates real people within the viewer's immediate physical or social environment as part of the representation. The goal of this visualization technique is to bring …
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"The conceit of this inconstant stay": Shakespeare's Philosophical Conquest of Time Through Personification
… change. Yet Shakespeare's approach to the personification of time, as well as his reactions to time, changes over the course of the sequence. He transforms his fear of and obsession with time as a destroyer typical of most sonnets to an attitude of mastery over the once ominous force. The …
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Agents with faces : a study on the effects of personification of software agents
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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Jocus : a personification of folly and play and an attribute of carnal love in Renaissance art
… in Renaissance iconography today; yet this personification has a substantial history in both art and literature. This study recovers the iconographic tradition of Jocus, identifying its classical literary origins, and tracing its survival, development and transformation in early-Christian, …
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The Separate and Collective Effects of Personalization, Personification, and Gender on Learning with Multimedia Chemistry Instructional Materials
… and test prospective design principles like personification (referring to abstract objects like atoms as "she" or "he").</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to use the recommendations on teaching atomic and electronic structure along with known multimedia design principles to create …
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Fama proditrix: Rumor in Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius
This project examines the personification of Fama in the authors Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius.These Latin authors were deeply influenced by Virgil’s famous personification of Fama in Aeneid 4, and their indebtedness to Virgil is expressed variously through their references to Fama in their own …
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FTM Redux: Studio sull'ultimo Marinetti
… rhetorical analysis. In my study, I argue that personification is the master trope of Marinetti's writing. I define the Marinettian poetics of personification in terms of an ideological clash between organic and inorganic, in which the writer's recurrent inclination to humanize inert matter …
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an Architecture Manufactum
… and uniqueness, and with these traits the personification of something innately human. This character, instilled into any work, immortalizes the idiosyncrasies descriptive of its creator. Rather than viewed as anachronism, inculcating the human component, "manufactum", into modern design …
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"The ""unabashed memoranda"" of the prefaces: Henry James's letter to the world"
… to unify the prefaces. Moreover, James's personification of his art as progeny establishes the New York Edition as his heritage, outlasting him and speaking for him as one's offspring do.
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"Love is Lak de Sea": Figurative Language in Zora Neale Hurston's <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>.
… Were Watching God. Metaphors, symbolism, and personification have always been present in the African American language. Hurston uses the richness of figurative language to depict the African American experience in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Figurative …
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The Interchange of Plain Velar and Aspirate in Kronos/Chronos: A Case for Etymological Equivalence
… the time-honored interpretation of Kronos as the personification of Time. The solution to this problem is of considerable importance to Classical studies, since it will not so much as contribute to a better understanding of the myth of Kronos, as the interpretation of Kronos as Time is already …
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Divine Poetics: Representation of Genre in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6.70-128
… the poetics of the Hellenistic tradition as the personification of Bacchus' divinity. Ovid illuminates his understanding of the two poetic traditions through Minerva's and Arachne's tapestries; while at the same time Ovid demonstrates his mastery of the two traditions by interweaving them into …
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Light Imagery in Little Dorrit
… appropriateness of Little Dorrit becoming the personification of sun and fire for Arthur.</p>
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Metaphor and ideology in film
… focus on the interaction of structuring, personification and displacement metaphors in the determination of the ideological discourses of the films.
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Homunculi of the Digital City
… Haraway's definition of the cyborg. I expand my personification further by employing the Homunculus from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust II (1950, originally published in 1832). I utilise Matthew Gandy, Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie's discussions around the broader city so to consider the …
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Exploring meaning in Xhalanga Blues: a theatre of ntsomi palimpsests encouraging sustainable storytelling
… riddles and songs; analogous explanations; personification; image-repertoire; extensive use of long speeches or monologues and survival construct. The research further explores the challenges of using these poetics as I try to make sense of my experiences, the visibility of black …
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Science and Natural Philosophy in the Poetry of Heinrich von Meissen (Frauenlob)
… enjambment, concatenation, ekphrasis, and personification are used repeated and strategically in the leichs as didactic tools and hermeneutic guides, enabling the audience to augment the text’s overt theological, literary, and philosophical allusions with additional levels of meaning …
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine
… for this thesis are metaphor, metonymy, simile, personification and hyperbole. |The figures checked were listed in the order in which they occur in each chapter. No attempt was made to group them according to their content. |The sentences In many instances are long, so phrases or clauses …
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Prostitution as Power: Selected Works of Lotte Lenya (1910-1940)
… subject this thesis will raise issues of the personification of female characters in Weill/Brecht works, and also tackle the issues surrounding that of the female sexualized protagonist. It will emphasize the importance Lenya had on the work of these two collaborators and examine her role …
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