Prosopopeia, or personification, is a figure of speech where absent or imaginary persons are represented as speaking, or non-human entities are given human qualities.
Prosopopeia, also known as personification, is a figure of speech where absent people are represented as speaking or inanimate objects are given human qualities.
| Front | prosopopeia also prosopopoeia \pruh-so-puh-PEE-uh\ |
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| Back | noun 1. A figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person is represented as speaking. 2. A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form. Personification. [Latin prosopopoeia, from Greek prosopopoiia : prosopon, face, mask, dramatic character : pros-, pros- + opon, face (from ops, eye) + poiein, to make.] "This is not theft, but kidnapping, summoning, prosopopoeia. In Eliot's earlier poem we still have one foot in another poet's hell. Here, Dante is summoned to the City of London, his lines marauded, his inferno woven within another of Eliot's own making." |
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