prosopopoeia
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Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προσωποποιία (prosōpopoiía, “dramatization, the putting of speeches into the mouths of characters”). By surface analysis, prosopo- + -poeia.
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Noun[edit]
prosopopoeia (countable and uncountable, plural prosopopoeias or prosopopoeiae)
- (rhetoric) An act of personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience; a figure of speech involving this.
- 1819 January, Thomas Hartwell Horne, “An introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures”, in The Eclectic Review[1], page 35:
- Of the prosopopœia or personification, there are two kinds: one when action and character are attributed to fictitious, irrational, or even inanimate objects; the others, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character.
- 2013, Graham Harvey, Animism: Respecting the Living World, page 4:
- Hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopoeia in poetry, where trees, mountains, and streams are personified, and the inanimate parts of nature acquire sentiment and passion.
- Personification of an abstraction.
Translations[edit]
Personifying a person or object.
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Personification of an abstraction.
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