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  2. Figure - Wikipedia

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    Figure (wood), wood appearance; Figure (music), distinguished from musical motif; Noise figure, in telecommunication; Dance figure, an elementary dance pattern; A person's figure, human physical appearance; Figure–ground (perception), the distinction between a visually perceived object and its surroundings

  3. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). [1] [2] In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of speech constitute the latter.

  4. Persona - Wikipedia

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    The more healthy a persona is, the more socially acceptable and consistent that person remains. However, once a person starts to believe they are their persona, it can have adverse effects on their personality. [16] James Hillman believed that once a person loses their identity to a persona, they become an archetypal figure. By losing their ...

  5. Characterization - Wikipedia

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    The term character development is sometimes used as a synonym. This representation may include direct methods like the attribution of qualities in description or commentary, and indirect (or "dramatic") methods inviting readers to infer qualities from characters' actions, dialogue, or appearance. Such a personage is called a character. [1]

  6. Person - Wikipedia

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    A person (pl.: people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.

  7. Figure–ground (perception) - Wikipedia

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    The Rubin vase illusion, where it is ambiguous which part is the figure and which the ground Shapes which can be read as a word once the viewer recognises them as being the isolated negative spaces of a word. Figure–ground organization is a type of perceptual grouping that is a vital necessity for recognizing objects through vision.

  8. Historical figure - Wikipedia

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    Historical figure brand is using famous historical person in branding, for instance Mozartkugel, Chopin (vodka) or Café Einstein. Historical figure is a person who lived in the past and whose deeds exerted a significant impact on other people’s lives and consciousness.

  9. Human physical appearance - Wikipedia

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    As for footwear, high heels make a person look taller. Style and colour of haircut (see also mohawk, dreadlocks, braids, ponytail, wig, hairpin, facial hair, beard and moustache) Cosmetics, stage makeup, body paintings, permanent makeup; Body modifications, such as body piercings, tattoos, scarification, subdermal implants; Plastic surgery