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Prosopopoeia   Listen
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Prosopopoeia  n.  (Rhet.) 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.





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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


Words linked to "Prosopopoeia" :   figure of speech, image, figure, trope, personification


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