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Personifications are very common elements in allegory, and historians and theorists of personification complain that the two have been too often confused, or discussion of them dominated by allegory. Single images of personifications tend to be titled as an "allegory", arguably incorrectly. [ 11 ]
A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda . In the first personifications in the Western World , warrior deities or figures symbolizing wisdom were used (for example the goddess Athena in ancient Greece), to indicate the strength ...
Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification, is a well-established literary device from ancient times. The story of " The Hawk and the Nightingale " in Hesiod 's Works and Days preceded Aesop 's fables by centuries.
Statue of Italia turrita e stellata in Naples. Italia turrita (pronounced [iˈtaːlja turˈriːta]; lit. ' Turreted Italy ') is the national personification or allegory of Italy, in the appearance of a young woman with her head surrounded by a mural crown completed by towers (hence turrita or "with towers" in Italian).
However, as can be seen from the image, it was also used as a national personification. The symbolic depiction of a country as a woman called by the Latin name of that country was common in the 19th century (see Germania , Britannia , Hibernia , Helvetia ).
Set of porcelain figures, German, c. 1775, from left: Asia, Europe, Africa, America, with parrot and cornucopia.. The addition of America to the previous three continents or "parts of the world" was not immediate after 1492, as it took some years to establish that America was not an eastern edge of Asia, and was a very large land mass comparable to the others.
A 1931 allegory of Hispania during the Second Republic, displaying the Spanish tricolor and other republican symbolism. This return to oblivion of the allegory was a perfect portrait to represent both the allegories of the First Republic and the Second Republic , also known as "La niña bonita" (the pretty girl).
Symbolism means to imbue objects with a certain meaning that is different from their original meaning or function. It is a representative of other aspects, concepts or traits than those visible in literal translation. Other literary devices, such as metaphor, allegory, and allusion, aid in the development of symbolism.