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  • 81per·son·i·fi·ca·tion — /pɚˌsɑːnəfəˈkeıʃən/ noun, pl tions 1 [count] 1 a : a person who has a lot of a particular quality and who is the perfect example of someone who has that quality often + of Your father is the personification of kindness and generosity. [=he is… …

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  • 82Literary technique — A literary technique (also, literary device, procedure or method) is any element or the entirety of elements a writer intentionally uses in the structure of their work.[1] It can be for example an identifiable rule of thumb, a convention, a… …

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  • 83Pathetic fallacy — The pathetic fallacy or anthropomorphic fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thoughts, or sensations. The pathetic fallacy is a special case of the fallacy of reification. The word in this use is related to …

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  • 84Barbarous radiate — Barbarous radiates are imitations of the antoninianus, a type of coin issued during the Roman Empire, which are so named due to their crude style and prominent radiate crown worn by the emperor. Barbarous radiates were issued privately primarily… …

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  • 85Mother Nature — For other uses, see Mother Earth. Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth) is a common personification of nature that focuses on the life giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it in the form of the mother. Images of women… …

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  • 86Estonian mythology — is a complex of myths belonging to the folk heritage of Estonians. Usually the term is used to denote the pre Christian mythology of the Estonians and their ancestors. Not much is known about authentic pre Christian Estonian mythology, as it was… …

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  • 87Māori religion — Māori Christian church in Akaroa. Christianity was adopted by Māori across New Zealand during the 19th century. Māori religion is the religious beliefs and practice of the Māori, the Polynesian indigenous people of New Zealand. Contents …

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  • 88The Botanic Garden — (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants , by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation, scientific discovery and offers theories… …

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  • 89Uranus — /yoor euh neuhs, yoo ray /, n. 1. Astron. the planet seventh in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 32,600 miles (56,460 km), a mean distance from the sun of 1,784 million miles (2,871 million km), a period of revolution of 84.07 …

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  • 90Deity — • This article is confined to the non Christian notion of the Deity Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Deity     Deity     † …

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