prosopopoeia
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From Ancient Greek προσωποποιία (“dramatization, the putting of speeches into the mouths of characters”).
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prosopopoeia (usually uncountable; plural prosopopoeiae)
- (rhetoric) Personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience.
- 1872, Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, Volume 2 - Page 334:
- Of the prosopopoeia, or personification, there are two kinds; one, when actions and character are attributed to irrational, or even inanimate objects; the other, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character.
- 1872, Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, Volume 2 - Page 334:
- Personification of an abstraction.
