prosopopoeia

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Definition of prosopopoeia in English English dictionary

a personification of an abstraction

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

Of the prosopopoeia, or personification, there are two kinds; one, when actions and character are attributed to irrational, or even inanimate objects; the other, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character.

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

Hyphenation

pros·o·po·poe·ia

Etymology

() From Ancient Greek προσωποποιία (“dramatization, the putting of speeches into the mouths of characters”).