personae

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  1. noun A voice or character representing the speaker in a literary work.
  2. noun The characters in a dramatic or literary work.
  3. noun The role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one's public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self.

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  • Each time this amazing actress steps into a different personae, the audience is right there with her, believing. —  Los Angeles Chronicle
  • The Citizen Kane Book (Limelight Editions, 1984), mostly a matter of personae, and not any real "auteur-ness", it still attaches him to his films in ways that are practically different than the others with whom he worked. —  PopMatters
  • All of these personae are directed by the Impresario, played by an imposing Edrick Benally. —  ABQnews Seeker Front Page
  • Boris proves to be a curious melding of Allen's and David's comedic personae, which overlap in many areas: constant indignation at society's shortcomings, a knack for dry, sharp observations and tremendous confidence in their own opinions. —  Film | guardian.co.uk
  • In the twelve chapters which she wrote, the dramatis personae are sketched in with vigour and decision; but there is little of the subtle refinement which we are accustomed to associate with her work, and certainly nothing of the tender sentiment of Persuasion_. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
 

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