Prosopopoeia

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  • n. Personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience.
  • n. Personification of an abstraction.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Literally, making (that is, inventing or imagining) a person; in rhetoric, originally, introduction, in a discourse or composition, of a pretended speaker, whether a person absent or deceased, or an abstraction or inanimate object: in modern usage generally limited to the latter sense, and accordingly equivalent to personification.
  • n. See prosopopeia.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    figure    trope    image    figure of speech   
     
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