Immediately the running feet became an identifiable figure bearing down on him.
Aristotle, Cicero and their allies defined an orator's skill by his ability to sway an audience through the use of specific, identifiable figures of speech.
The painting shows a crowd of people, with a number of identifiable figures of historical importance.
At the same time they were useful in crowded narrative scenes for distinguishing the main, identifiable, figures from the mass of a crowd.
Then he caught a glimpse of her on shore, a distant figure readily identifiable by her hair, and her odd grab-bag selection of clothing.
There is also a figure, identifiable as Padmapani, the Bodhisatva of the same period.
Another identifiable figure is the bird-man, characterized by men dressed as birds.
All of the people had a basic cylinder body with the female figures only identifiable by the addition of slanted, oval eyes and eyelashes.
Other identifiable fictionalized figures included George Padmore.