prosopopeya

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Definition of prosopopeya in Spanish English dictionary

prosopopoeia

a personification of an abstraction

a figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person is represented as speaking

personification: representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

a form of personification in which an inanimate object gains the ability to speak For instance, in the Anglo-Saxon poem, "The Dream of the Rood, the wooden cross verbally describes the death of Christ from its own perspective Ecocritical writers might describe clearcutting from the viewpoint of the tree, and so on See personification, above

lending speech to something inanimate See also Personification

A rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object