personification
noun
[ pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n ]
• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
• "the book provides a sustained account of how literary personification works"
• a figure intended to represent an abstract quality.
• "the knight is accompanied by two feminine personifications of vice"
Similar:
embodiment,
incarnation,
epitome,
quintessence,
essence,
type,
symbol,
soul,
picture,
model,
symbolization,
exemplification,
exemplar,
image,
representation,
likeness,
manifestation,
avatar,
