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prosopopoeia
[proh-soh-puh-pee-uh]
noun
personification, as of inanimate things.
a figure of speech in which an imaginary, absent, or deceased person is represented as speaking or acting.
prosopopoeia
/ ˌɒəəˈ辱ːə /
noun
rhetoric another word for personification
a figure of speech that represents an imaginary, absent, or dead person speaking or acting
Other 51Թ Forms
- prosopopoeial adjective
- ˌDzDZˈDZ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of prosopopoeia1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of prosopopoeia1
Example Sentences
Over its many seasons of courtship Harrison has come to be the prosopopoeia of all the nation's unease over changing demographics.
Where others would say “I don’t want to talk in my husband’s place”, she said something I’ve never heard anyone else say: “I don’t like prosopopoeia.”
The want of scenery is sometimes supplied by a very unclassical figure, which, just the reverse of the prosopopoeia or personification of grammarians, considers persons to represent things.
Phædrus evidently confounds them with tales; and Gay, both with tales and allegorical prosopopoeias.
Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.
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