Capitalize vivid personifications.
- the march of Time
- Fate’s fool
Capitalize metonymic nouns that stand for a noun that would be capitalized.
- the Crown (stands for the King)
Abstractions are sometimes capitalized when used in an ideal sense. As general concepts, however, they are lower-cased:
- We know that Justice is blind.
- Beauty is truth, truth beauty-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -John Keats
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