prosopopoeia
Noun
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Noun
prosopopoeia
- (rhetoric) Personifying a person or object when communicate to an audience.
- 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511 ↗, page 23 ↗:
- Prosopopœia a new person feigns,
And to inanimates speech and actions deigns.
- personification of an abstraction.
- French: prosopopée
- Italian: prosopopea
- Portuguese: prosopopéia
- French: prosopopée
- Italian: prosopopea
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