Meaning of Prosopopoeia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience; a figure of speech involving this.
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable
2. Obsolete typography of prosopopoeia.
   alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. The personification of an abstraction.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Of the prosopopœia or personification, there are two kinds: one when action and character are attributed to fictitious, irrational, or even inanimate objects; the others, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character.”

“Prosopopœia a new person feigns, And to inanimates speech and actions deigns.”

“Hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopoeia in poetry, where trees, mountains, and streams are personified, and the inanimate parts of nature acquire sentiment and passion.”

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