portrayal

Types:: half-length
a portrait showing the body from only the waist up; self-portrait
a portrait of yourself created by yourself

Type of:: likeness, semblance
picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing

Type of:: characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word picture, word-painting
a graphic or vivid verbal description

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; impression
an impressionistic portrayal of a person; character, part, persona, role, theatrical role
an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; bit part, minor role
a small role; heavy
a serious (or tragic) role in a play; hero
the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem; ingenue
the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play; name part, title role
the role of the character after whom the play is named; heroine
the main good female character in a work of fiction; baddie, villain
the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction

Type of:: acting, performing, playacting, playing
the performance of a part or role in a drama

Type of:: representational process
any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else

Type of:: pictorial representation, picturing
visual representation as by photography or painting

DEFINITIONS OF: portrayal