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prosopopoeia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun prosopopoeia has 1 sense
- prosopopoeia(n = noun.communication) personification - representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature; Array is a kind of figure, figure of speech, image, trope
OXFORD DICTIONARY
prosopopoeia, n. the rhetorical introduction of a pretended speaker or the personification of an abstract thing.
Etymology
L f. Gk prosopopoiia f. prosopon person + poieo make
ROGET THESAURUS
prosopopoeia
Metaphor
N metaphor, figure of speech, facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy), metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical, so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.
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