persona vs personation

persona and personation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
persona	Yes	No	No	No
personation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, personation is a hypernym of persona; that is, personation is a word with a broader meaning than persona:

persona: an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
personation: acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

Other hypernyms of persona include characterization, enactment, portrayal.

persona (noun)	personation (noun)
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world	imitating the mannerisms of another person
an actor's portrayal of someone in a play	acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture