Prosopopeia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person is represented as speaking.
  • n. See personification.
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  • n. Alternative form of prosopopoeia.
    • Word Usage
    "But I had another and more dreadful sorrow to think of, the sorrow of a woman who had lost her last love; so I left the old woman to her prosopopeia, and carried off the precious correspondence, carefully sealed by my friend of the day."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    figure    trope    image    figure of speech   
     
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