1. A literary device in which an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea is given human qualities or is represented as speaking.
Usage: Also spelled prosopopoeia; A form of personification; Common in poetry and rhetoric

Examples

• The poet used prosopopeia when she wrote that the wind whispered secrets through the trees.
• In the fable, prosopopeia allows the fox to speak and reason like a human character.
• The author employed prosopopeia to make Death itself a character in the narrative.
• Through prosopopeia, the ancient orator made Justice speak directly to the assembly.
• The painting's use of prosopopeia gives the old house a weary, knowing expression.