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What is the difference between Impersonate and Personify ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between Impersonate and Personify ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Impersonate would mean a person trying to emulate another person while Personify means apply human traits to something that is not a person
(name) impersonated (name2) by copying their way of speaking.
I personified this cardboard box by pretending like it could be happy or sad.
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"Impersonate" is negative, as you're taking on someone's traits to deceive others. Fraud is a form of impersonation.
"Personify" is more neutral. Actors personify the character they're playing.
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Impersonate means to pretend to be someone else, not necessarily emulate them. It’s to take on someone else’s identity. It could be someone you don’t respect, after all, and you wouldn’t want to emulate that person.
He’s impersonating a thief.
Personify means to be an example of. He personifies integrity.
It also means to become a character. It doesn’t really mean attribute human traits to.
In the poem the oak trees are personified. In the poem, the oak trees become characters. The oak trees are not made into people.
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