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Prosopopoeia

noun
1.
Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature.  Synonym: personification.





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... The Prosopopoeia[39] in which he makes the city of Ostend speak, after being three years besieged by the Spaniards, is reckoned one of the best pieces of verse since the Augustan age. Public fame gave it at first to Scaliger because he ...
— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny


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