PROSOPOPOEIA
personification, prosopopoeia
(noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
prosopopoeia (countable and uncountable, plural prosopopoeias or prosopopoeiae)
(rhetoric) Personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience.
Personification of an abstraction.
Source: Wiktionary
Pros`o*po*poe"ia, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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