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prosopopoeia

or ····

[ proh-soh-puh-pee-uh ]

noun

Rhetoric.
  1. personification, as of inanimate things.
  2. a figure of speech in which an imaginary, absent, or deceased person is represented as speaking or acting.


prosopopoeia

/ ˌɒəəˈ辱ːə /

noun

  1. rhetoric another word for personification
  2. a figure of speech that represents an imaginary, absent, or dead person speaking or acting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌDzDZˈDZ𾱲, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·p·DZi adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of prosopopoeia1

First recorded in 1550–60; from Latin DzōDZDZ𾱲, from Greek DzōDZǾí “personification,” equivalent to óō() “f, person ” + Ǿ(î) “to make” + -ia -ia
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of prosopopoeia1

C16: via Latin from Greek DzōDZǾ dramatization, from DzōDz face + poiein to make
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Over its many seasons of courtship Harrison has come to be the prosopopoeia of all the nation's unease over changing demographics.

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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.”

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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.

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Phædrus evidently confounds them with tales; and Gay, both with tales and allegorical prosopopoeias.

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Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.

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