personification (n.)

• acting
• aping
• characterization
• embodiment
• enactment
• imitation
• impersonation
• incarnation
• incorporation
• masquerade
• materialization
• metempsychosis
• mimesis
• mimicry
• pantomime
• performance
• performing
• personation
• playing
• portrayal
• posing
• reincarnation
• substantiation
• transmigration