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Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
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prosopopoeia
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A prosopopoeia is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object. The term literally derives from the Greek roots prósopon "face, person", and poiéin "to make, to do". Prosopopoeiae ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature [syn: personification ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prosopopoeia \Pros`o*po*p[oe]"ia\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; pro`swpon a face, a person + ? to make.] (Rhet.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rhetoric English) Personifying a person or object when (l en communicate communicating) to an (l en audience). 2 (l en personification Personification) of an (l en abstraction).
Usage examples of prosopopoeia.
I told him the cause, and read to him the prosopopoeia of Fabricius, written with a pencil under a tree.
Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.