eidolopoeia

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From Ancient Greek εἰδωλοποιία (eidōlopoiía, formation of images; putting words into the mouth of a dead person), from εἰδωλοποιός (eidōlopoiós, producing phantom-like appearances), from εἴδωλον (eídōlon, phantom) + ποιός (poiós, -like).

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eidolopoeia (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or an idol.
    • 2003, “The Preliminary Exercises of Aphthonius the Sophist”, in George Alexander Kennedy, editor, Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric[1], Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, Footnote 79, page 115.:
      The status of the speaker at the time the speech is imagined as being given is what determines whether it is ethopoeia or eidolopoeia. A speech Heracles might have given while alive is an example of ethopoeia, a speech he might have given after death is an eidolopoeia

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