PERSONIFICATIO  擬人法

FICTIO converting what is not a person into a person.

Attribution of personal attributes to non-humans.

Hypernym
  • FICTIOHISTRIONIC NARRATIO or discursive invention.
    • NARRATIOSPEECH ACT which consists in the reporting of events.
      • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
        • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
    • HISTRIONICSRHETORICAL TROPE which crucially involves playful dissimulation of one's real meaning.
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Hyponym
  • PROSOPOPOEIAPERSONIFICATION in the form FICTIO of speech in things that cannot speak. Fictional attribution of speech to animals or things that cannot speak.
    • PERSONIFICATIO-ABSTRACT-SUBJECT抽象擬人﹣主語 The personified use of abstract nouns as (quasi-)agents
      Rhetorical device locations: 5
      • 寒山詩 形問影何從。
      • 論語 天喪予！ 天喪予
      • 莊子 夫子貪生失理

        夫子

      • 論語 天之未喪斯文也，

        by degrees: no subtle psychology is attributed to heaven. Mere purpose, no deliberation. The contrast with the Old Testament personification of Jehova is a good comparison.

      • 論語 「固天縱之將聖， 又多能也

        Zigong has tiān take the subtle administrative action 縱 "give permission/liberty". But is he being entirely serious? One wonders.