personation vs persona

personation and persona both are nouns.

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

As nouns, persona is a hyponym of personation; that is, persona is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than personation:

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

Other hyponyms of personation include impression, character, part, role, theatrical role.

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